penguins
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Over half of Antarctica’s badass Adélie penguins could get wiped out by climate change
This isn’t the first time we’re hearing of threats to the tuxedo-clad birds -- but there might be some good news for their future.
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From sea lions to penguin chicks, adorable animals are dying in droves
"Mass mortality events" are already a thing, and climate change is only going to make them worse. Grab some tissues.
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Picky eaters — like penguins and my cousin Jables — could starve under climate change
Specialist eaters like chinstrap penguins could face species-ending food shortages, while generalists like gentoo penguins thrive.
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Look out! These cute penguins are cold-blooded killers
Japanese researchers put cameras on the backs of adorable Adelie penguins and sent them out to hunt. Generally, if you are interested in continuing to think an omnivorous animal is cute, you don't want to do this.
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Man, animals are kinkier than you thought
It's hard to know how freaky animal sex gets, though, because some scientists are protective of their research subjects.
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Antarctic moss eats 8,000-year-old penguin poop
Earlier this year, a slightly horrifying factoid made its way around the internet: Penguins poop so much that piles of their poop can be seen from space. But take heart, people who don’t like thinking about mountains of bird guano: It turns out that today’s penguin dung heap could be tomorrow’s source of nutrition for […]
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1915 document shows that penguins are extremely sexually depraved
England’s Natural History Museum at Tring recently rediscovered a 1915 report about penguin behavior that had been buried for almost 100 years — because it was considered too X-rated to be suitable for publication. Which, okay, yes, people from 1915 were prudish, but also, penguins are getting up to some freaky shit.
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Penguin lives the dream, bites Newt Gingrich
Gingrich was bitten on the finger by the penguin at the St. Louis zoo.
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Critical List: Emperor penguin population double previous estimates; a new fracking working group
A team using very high resolution satellite pictures counted twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than any previous study had. President Obama formed a new working group in Washington to coordinate federal oversight of fracking. Those earthquakes in Oklahoma and Arkansas could be caused not just by fracking wastewater disposal but by fracking itself.