{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Phys.org news tagged with:penguins","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/","language":"en-us","description":"Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.","item":[{"title":"Skua deaths mark first wildlife die-off due to avian flu on Antarctica","description":"More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the continent. That is confirmed for the first time in a study led by Erasmus MC in The Netherlands and the University of California, Davis. It was published this week in the journal Scientific Reports.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-skua-deaths-wildlife-die-due.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:50:41 EST","guid":"news689514601"},{"title":"Are returning Pumas putting Patagonian Penguins at risk? New study reveals the likelihood","description":"Should we protect an emblematic species if it may come at the cost of another one\u2014particularly in ecosystems that are still recovering from human impacts? This is the conservation dilemma facing Monte Leon National Park, on the Patagonian coast in Argentina.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-pumas-patagonian-penguins-reveals-likelihood.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:00:01 EST","guid":"news689420334"},{"title":"How a new diet of penguins is changing puma behavior and social lives in Patagonia","description":"Penguins in the coastal steppes of Argentina have a new enemy to worry about: the increasing numbers of pumas in Monte Le\u00f3n National Park (MLNP). These powerful mountain cats were once on the brink of disappearing from this region due to hunting and the loss of their natural prey, but have been brought back through dedicated conservation efforts that protect their habitat.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-diet-penguins-puma-behavior-social.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:30:02 EST","guid":"news685192430"},{"title":"To see or not to see\u2014distinguishing 'absence' from 'ignorance' to improve seabird conservation","description":"What you don't see is as important as what you do, when it comes to mapping Antarctic seabird breeding sites.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-distinguishing-absence-seabird.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:59:21 EST","guid":"news685025941"},{"title":"Penguins likely starved to death en masse: Populations off South Africa may have fallen 95% in just 8 years","description":"Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely starved to death en masse during their molting season as a result of collapsing food supplies.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-penguins-starved-death-en-masse.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:00:01 EST","guid":"news683998398"},{"title":"Species in crisis: Critically endangered penguins are directly competing with fishing boats","description":"A new study led by the University of St Andrews has found that critically endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are significantly more likely to forage in the same areas as commercial fishing vessels during years of low fish abundance, increasing competition for food and adding pressure to a species already in crisis.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-species-crisis-critically-endangered-penguins.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:10:01 EST","guid":"news682333742"},{"title":"Close relatives of emperor penguins lived in NZ some 3 million years ago: What caused their extinction?","description":"Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins\u2014emperors and kings\u2014lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-emperor-penguins-nz-million-years.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:29:03 EDT","guid":"news677838541"},{"title":"Going with the flow: How penguins use tides to travel and hunt","description":"Poohsticks, the game in which Piglet and Winnie the Pooh throw sticks into the river from one side of a bridge, and then rush over to the other side to see whose stick appears first, is all about current flow. Disappointingly, neither Piglet nor Pooh mention fluid dynamics despite its pivotal importance in determining who won.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-penguins-tides.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:16:20 EDT","guid":"news674820977"},{"title":"Dagger beaks and strong wings: New fossils rewrite the penguin story and affirm NZ as a cradle of their evolution","description":"Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early evolution of penguins.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-dagger-beaks-strong-wings-fossils.html","category":"Evolution","pubDate":"Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:09:39 EDT","guid":"news674302174"},{"title":"Magellanic penguins may use currents to conserve energy on long journeys","description":"Currents can affect marine animals' locomotion, energy expenditure and ability to navigate; the force of currents may cause them to drift off-course of their intended trajectory.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-magellanic-penguins-currents-energy-journeys.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:00:10 EDT","guid":"news671897159"},{"title":"Low Antarctic sea ice can trigger ecosystem disruptions","description":"Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's climate, and the ice is a key habitat for underwater as well as above-water ecosystems. Antarctic sea ice cover is becoming much more variable as the climate changes; there has been a string of record high years followed by years with record low areas of ice.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-antarctic-sea-ice-trigger-ecosystem.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:10:05 EDT","guid":"news670594201"},{"title":"As Antarctic sea ice shrinks, iconic emperor penguins are in more peril than previously thought","description":"When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Ad\u00e9lie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-antarctic-sea-ice-iconic-emperor.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:10:01 EDT","guid":"news669017152"},{"title":"Emperor penguin populations declining faster than expected","description":"Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, according to new research on Tuesday that warned the losses were far worse than previously imagined.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-emperor-penguin-populations-declining-faster.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:03:08 EDT","guid":"news668757757"},{"title":"Penguin feathers reveal mercury contamination in remote Southern Ocean","description":"In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned \"Silent Spring,\" alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds\u2014the bald eagle in particular\u2014that spurred people to action.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-penguin-feathers-reveal-mercury-contamination.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:35:20 EDT","guid":"news663478512"},{"title":"Scientists call for uplisting emperor penguins to 'threatened' on IUCN red list","description":"Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with international partners, have developed a novel approach to addressing uncertainties in ecological and environmental projections, providing a more robust assessment of extinction risk for emperor penguins.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-03-scientists-uplisting-emperor-penguins-threatened.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:02:04 EDT","guid":"news662133721"},{"title":"Antarctic expedition confirms the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the Weddell Sea","description":"The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI H5N1) in Antarctica. The first results of the campaign, led by Antonio Alcam\u00ed, a CSIC research professor at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (CBMSO-CSIC-UAM), have confirmed the presence of the virus in all species detected on six islands in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-02-antarctic-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:54:55 EST","guid":"news659116487"},{"title":"The secret lives of Phillip Island's divorcing penguins","description":"Life isn't always a beach for Phillip Island's beloved penguins, who have been found to divorce their partners and find a new mate if they aren't satisfied with the number of young filling the nest\u2014but it's a risky decision that can lower success in their next breeding attempt.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-01-secret-phillip-island-divorcing-penguins.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:23:03 EST","guid":"news656270581"},{"title":"Emperor penguins lead to discovery of new detoxification pathway for mercury","description":"An international team of scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France, has found that emperor penguins detoxify mercury with both sulfur and selenium, a new pathway for a marine predator. This new detoxification pathway for mercury has been unveiled in a study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-12-emperor-penguins-discovery-detoxification-pathway.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:18:35 EST","guid":"news653152712"},{"title":"AI method captures ecotourism photos to monitor remote animal species","description":"A team of computer scientists, ecologists and statisticians at Stony Brook University, working with a colleague from the U.S. Geological Survey, has found that it is possible to use AI applications to find images captured by ecotourists for use in studying remote animal species.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-ai-method-captures-ecotourism-photos.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:42:47 EDT","guid":"news649586549"},{"title":"The fight to save Rockingham's little penguins","description":"Near the HMAS Stirling naval base, a battle is being waged on the shores of Garden Island to protect its most elusive inhabitants.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-rockingham-penguins.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:52:59 EDT","guid":"news648301971"},{"title":"New insights into Little Penguins' sensitivity to noise","description":"Curtin University researchers have used state-of-the-art imaging technology to shed light on the hearing sensitivity of Australian Little Penguins and the danger of marine noise pollution.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-insights-penguins-sensitivity-noise.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:31:03 EDT","guid":"news644056261"},{"title":"Australian penguin dies, ending famous 'same-sex power couple'","description":"A celebrated Australian penguin famous for raising chicks as part of an unlikely same-sex couple has died, a Sydney aquarium said on Thursday.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-australian-penguin-dies-famous-sex.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Thu, 22 Aug 2024 03:27:13 EDT","guid":"news643516010"},{"title":"As human activities expand in Antarctica, scientists identify crucial conservation sites","description":"A team of scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder has identified 30 new areas critical for conserving biodiversity in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. In a study published Aug. 15 in the journal Conservation Biology, the researchers warn that without greater protection to limit human activities in these areas, native wildlife could face significant population declines.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-human-antarctica-scientists-crucial-sites.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:24:03 EDT","guid":"news642947041"},{"title":"Scientists count emperor penguins in the Antarctic to investigate factors affecting population","description":"Emperor penguins are an endangered species. Scientists are protecting the largest of all penguins by monitoring their numbers precisely and investigating which factors affect their population. A team led by researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU) has now developed a reliable method that can predict the number of breeding pairs and chicks and serve as an early warning system for climate change in the Antarctic Ocean.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-scientists-emperor-penguins-antarctic-factors.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Wed, 29 May 2024 09:00:04 EDT","guid":"news636192002"},{"title":"Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: Study","description":"Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds' attempts to adapt to the shrinking landscape.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-emperor-penguins-perish-ice-lows.html","category":"Ecology","pubDate":"Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:47:42 EDT","guid":"news633235651"},{"title":"Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics","description":"Anthropogenic plastic pollution is often experienced through evocative images of marine animals caught in floating debris, yet its reach is far more expansive. The polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica are increasingly experiencing the impacts of plastic reaching floating ice and land, not solely as larger macroplastics (>5 cm), but as microplastics (0.1 \u00b5m\u20145 mm) and nanoplastics (","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-03-polar-plastic-sampled-antarctic-seabirds.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:17:38 EDT","guid":"news629626651"},{"title":"High-resolution imagery advances the ability to monitor decadal changes in emperor penguin populations","description":"Emperor penguin populations have been exceedingly difficult to monitor because of their remote locations and because individuals form breeding colonies on seasonal sea ice fastened to land (known as fast ice) during the dark and cold Antarctic winter.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-03-high-resolution-imagery-advances-ability.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:47:05 EDT","guid":"news629552821"},{"title":"A baby boom of African penguin chicks hatches at a San Francisco science museum","description":"A bounty of 10 African penguin chicks has hatched in just over a year at a San Francisco science museum as part of an effort to conserve the endangered bird.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-02-baby-boom-african-penguin-chicks.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:11:15 EST","guid":"news626634664"},{"title":"Scientists spot previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in Antarctica","description":"Previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins have been spotted in new satellite imagery.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-01-scientists-previously-unknown-colonies-emperor.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:05:02 EST","guid":"news625291359"},{"title":"Research shows Ad\u00e9lie penguins must balance the benefits and costs of riding on sea ice during long-distance migration","description":"Research by Petaluma-based non-profit, Point Blue Conservation Science, shows how Ad\u00e9lie penguins within the Ross Sea, Antarctica use sea ice in their annual migrations. The paper, \"Going with the floe: Sea\u2010ice movement affects distance and destination during Ad\u00e9lie penguin winter movements,\" is published in the journal Ecology.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-01-adlie-penguins-benefits-sea-ice.html","category":"Plants & Animals","pubDate":"Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:00:02 EST","guid":"news624290401"}]}}