The highlighted chicks include four gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) and four chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus). Antarctic penguins losing to climate change through 80% krill decline ...

Nesting chinstrap penguins take nodding off to the extreme. The birds briefly dip into a slumber many thousands of times per day, sleeping for only seconds at a time. The penguins’ breeding colonies ...

Those cute little penguins that are known for the black line that crosses under their “chin” may be in peril. Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) are a medium-size, sub-Antarctic species that ...

Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) feeding its chicks (IMAGE) University of Cambridge Caption Birds use their beaks for a diverse range of tactile functions (much as primates use their hands), ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguins at Deception Island, in the western Antarctic Peninsula. Penguins in Antarctica, a region on the front line of climate change, are adapting by shifting ...