For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating, ...

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More species are being designated as vulnerable or endangered worldwide due to habitat loss, climate change, and human ...

Dozens of colonies of three species show the same trend, which could produce unclear ecological consequences Every year, ...

Penguins won't lay their eggs any old time of year. They carefully synchronize breeding time with the seasons to give the ...

In Antarctica, penguins do not lay their eggs at random. Their breeding cycles are precisely timed with the seasons, so ...

In what seems like an inefficient use of resources, these penguins always lay two eggs, but then ignore, discard, or just ...