A new analysis of old data suggests that the endangered erect-crested penguin’s bizarre nesting habits – rejecting the first egg they lay – is because they can’t feed two chicks, and the second, ...

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An endangered species of penguin has been found to destroy or ignore its first egg, and only raise its second one. The female erect-crested penguin typically lays a small egg and then a larger one ...

A new analysis of old data suggests that the endangered erect-crested penguin's bizarre nesting habits -- rejecting the first egg they lay -- is because they can't feed two chicks, and the second, ...

New Zealand's subantarctic Antipodes Islands are of international significance for breeding seabirds. However, penguin populations on the islands are declining. Uncertainty about the extent of this ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient penguin with red eyes and yellow feathers that lived three million years ago and could be the "missing link" between modern-day penguins and their ancestors.

The Fiordland crested penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus is one of the least studied crested penguin species, with indications the species has a declining population, which would be in line with the ...

Christopher Intagliata: For 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Hundreds of miles southeast of New Zealand, lie the windswept Bounty and Antipodes Islands. It's there you'll find the ...

Lead author, Dr Daniel Thomas, said the new discovery helps paint a picture of how crested penguins and other seabirds came to be the way they are today. A red-billed penguin that lived on Earth more ...