PENGUINS News
A lost Humboldt penguin was rescued by members of Chile's Sernapesca fisheries body in Chañaral, a small coastal city and commune in Chile's Atacama Region last week.
Just 160 kilometres (100 miles) away in the west Antarctic, the same species is in decline due to sea ice melt blamed on global warming, they said.
The research in the Vestfold Hills in East Antarctica found deglacial sediment dating back 15,600 years, and sediment of penguin excrement and dirt dating back 14,600 years.
The fossils, which were discovered in 2004 on some rocks near Hampden Beach in South Island of New Zealand, suggested that it was one of the largest penguins in history.
The study highlights where conservation efforts could be most effective in building penguins' resilience against climate change, researchers said.
Bombay High Court has decided not to stop the public display of seven penguins, brought from South Korea to the Byculla zoo here, saying it cannot hastily conclude that they are not taken proper care.
The region has suffered from decades of overfishing and environmental changes, reducing the number of fish.
The Adelie penguin population at the bay`s Cape Denison was measured to be about 160,000 in February 2011 but by December 2013 it had plunged to an estimated 10,000.
The huge iceberg dubbed 'B09B' measuring about 100 square kilometres (38.6 square miles), became trapped in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in December 2010.
The B09B iceberg, measuring some 100 sq kms, grounded in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in December 2010, researchers from Australia and New Zealand said.
Little penguins are more likely to work together to hunt schooling prey rather than solitary prey, a new study has found.
Antarctic penguins live in a bitterly cold place, where the air temperature can drop to -40 degrees Celsius and the winds can hurtle at speeds of 40 meters per second.
Here comes good news for penguin lovers. Shrinking glaciers are leading to the birth of more Adelie penguins in the East Antarctica region, researchers report.
In a video which has gone viral on social media shows these cute penguins at Odense Zoo in Denmark trying to escape the captivity of zoo.
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