A new analysis of old data suggests that the endangered erect-crested penguin's bizarre nesting habits -- rejecting the first egg they lay -- is because they can't feed two chicks, and the second, ...

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Christopher Intagliata: For 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Hundreds of miles southeast of New Zealand, lie the windswept Bounty and Antipodes Islands. It's there you'll find the ...

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More than half of the world's 19 penguin species are in danger of extinction — and eight of them live in New Zealand. Determined to save penguins from global warming and other threats, the Center ...

"The macaronis are a species of crested penguins," said Jill Dodds, penguin and pinniped biologist. "They have those fun yellow feathers that grow across their forehead like a unibrow." For now, the ...

The docuseries “Secrets of the Penguins” by National Geographic captured footage of several rare penguin chicks for the very first time. Their parents are a mixed-species couple: a rockhopper mother ...