Penguins are some of the most popular animals on the planet thanks to their outstanding ability to survive in at the south ...

A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million years ago, foraging for fish and other animals in the Late Cretaceous ocean off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...

The Late Cretaceous modern bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. (Credit: Mark Witton, ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

Think penguins only belong in icy Antarctica? Think again—these tuxedoed birds thrive on sun-soaked beaches, and I just met ...

When the wind blew from the direction of the colony, ammonia levels spiked, sometimes reaching 1,000 times above normal ...

Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?" The new specimen, recovered from the Antarctic Peninsula in 2011, appears set to lay recent skepticism to rest, with the shape ...

An Antarctic discovery might offer new insights into the origins of modern birds. The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of ...

highlighting the role of the Antarctic food chain in the transmission of avian influenza. The first known cases around South Georgia were found in seabirds at Bennison’s home base of Bird Island ...