How many bones do penguins have?

How did penguins end up with so few bones – and become lightning-fast swimmers?

Julie Sheldon, Clinical Assistant Professor of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Tennessee • conversation
Jan. 24, 2022 ~5 min

2019 heat wave killed a huge number of Magellanic penguins

Extreme heat in 2019 that reached 111.2 Fahrenheit in the shade killed at least 354 Magellanic penguins at one of the birds' largest breeding colonies.

James Urton-U. Washington • futurity
Jan. 7, 2022 ~8 min


Melting Ice Threatens Emperor Penguin Environment

VOA Learning English • voa
Aug. 8, 2021 ~3 min

98% of emperor penguin colonies could be extinct by 2100 as ice melts – can Endangered Species Act protection save them?

Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. A new study shows the risk they face from climate change.

Stephanie Jenouvrier, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • conversation
Aug. 3, 2021 ~9 min

98% of emperor penguin colonies could be extinct by 2100 as ice melts -- can Endangered Species Act protection help them?

Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. A new study shows the risk they face from climate change.

Stephanie Jenouvrier, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • conversation
Aug. 3, 2021 ~9 min

Emperor penguins may be headed for 'threatened' status under Endangered Species Act – they're at risk from climate change

Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. Global warming is raising risks.

Stephanie Jenouvrier, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • conversation
Aug. 3, 2021 ~9 min

Emperor penguins headed for 'threatened' status under Endangered Species Act – they're at risk from climate change

Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. Global warming is putting their chicks at risk and setting almost every colony on a path toward extinction.

Stephanie Jenouvrier, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • conversation
Aug. 3, 2021 ~9 min

We discovered what's killing the world's rarest penguin – and it could help us make a vaccine

The bacteria which causes the infection in yellow-eyed penguins is closely related to a human pathogen.

Vartul Sangal, Senior Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle • conversation
June 11, 2021 ~5 min


How we discovered three new species of penguin in the Southern Ocean

The discovery that gentoo penguins are actually four distinct species has important implications for their conservation.

Jane Younger, Research Fellow, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath • conversation
Nov. 5, 2020 ~6 min

Giant 'toothed' birds flew over Antarctica 40 million to 50 million years ago

Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous 'toothed' bird that lived for a period of about 60 million years after dinosaurs.

Peter A. Kloess, Doctoral Candidate, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley • conversation
Oct. 27, 2020 ~7 min

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