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What the ‘trash heap’ penguins of Argentina are teaching us about survival
For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...
The world’s rarest penguins don’t fear the heat. Here's how they learned to embraced it.
These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...
Nat Geo docuseries reveals never-before-seen look at penguins in 'Secrets of the Penguins'
However, using advanced drone technology, Gregory was able to capture a never-before-seen moment in penguin behavior when a group of chicks, having lost their way, faced a 50-foot cliff. The penguins' ...
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Our car tires are poisoning salmon—and maybe us, too
Scientists have learned that particles from car tires are a leading culprit in salmon declines in the Pacific Northwest—and are in our bodies as well. Rubber tires are stacked before getting ...
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Scientists peeked underneath an iceberg and found a startling kaleidoscope of marine life
The expedition team hopes that the huge volume of oceanic and environmental data taken during from the site will provide some concrete answers—as well as revealing if any of these animals they ...