On Tuesday, a group of independent researchers on a Greenpeace expedition to Antarctica shared findings from their recent survey of chinstrap penguin colonies in the region. The team found that ...

Animals with specialized diets—such as chinstrap penguins, which only eat krill—could be more sensitive to the effects of human activities than those that eat a wider variety of foods, according to a ...

But a new study published in November found that chinstrap penguins take short naps thousands of times every day. They accumulate their daily sleep requirement of more than 11 hours in short ...

Feathers from three penguin species—Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap—were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research Group ...

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research ...

Researchers, examining 30 years of data, said chinstrap and Adelie penguin numbers had been falling since 1986. Warming waters, less sea-ice cover and more whale and seal numbers was cited as ...