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Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom.
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As we wait for the new Penguin Trek to open, the Antartica realm has reopened at SeaWorld Orlando featuring a revamped ...
All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...
The crew of the Que Sera Sera, a Navy transport plane, at the South Pole on Oct. 31, 1956. The plane's pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Conrad “Gus” Shinn, is third from left.
Interestingly, the krill also appeared to lose their appetite in the presence of penguin poop, feeding 64 percent less efficiently than under normal conditions.
Scientists have used ancient DNA to help reconstruct 6,000 years of penguin history at the South Pole. The researchers found that Adélie penguins had taken over the habitat of southern elephant ...
Today, the U.S. operates three major research stations on the continent—McMurdo Station, Palmer Station and the South Pole Station—making it one of the most active nations in Antarctic research.
The flightless birds with flippers - the only aquatic variety that live and breed on ice - are considered the symbol of the frozen, 14.2 million sq. km of landmass surrounding the South Pole.
The fifth-largest continent, the magical Antarctica, which dominates the South Pole in all its mysterious isolation, began to form as an ice sheet 34-35 million ...
Of Antarctica’s range of animals, only the emperor penguins were able to adapt at the right pace and retain their habitat on what became Earth’s most forbidding continent. Antarctica’s northernmost ...