When most people think of birds, they imagine tiny sparrows, colourful parrots, or pigeons sitting quietly on rooftops. But ...

As their joints stiffened, they learned to fly through water. Wings became flippers. The evolution of flippers is a classic case of exaptation, a phenomenon in biology that has much to teach our own ...

A species of gentoo penguin previously unknown to science came as the result of an in-depth genetic analysis across 10 ...

Talks between Antarctic Treaty members began Tuesday in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with a focus on the growing threats ...

Which Bird Does Not Make Its Own Nest: More than 10,001 bird species can be found all round the globe. They span a massive size range, from one of the tiniest birds in the world – the teeny Bee ...

Antarctic sea ice has dramatically declined, with losses equivalent to Greenland's size. Researchers link this to warming ...

Some animals don’t just make it through winter — they rule in places where exposed skin freezes in minutes and entire ...

The four-foot-tall Emperor penguin of Antarctica may be the most iconic member of this unique family of birds, but 17 other species of penguins ...

Researchers fitted Magellanic penguins with chemical-absorbing leg bands to gather data about pollution in the ocean.