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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
Penguins and ‘forest giraffe’ among animals totted up at Hampshire zoo
A colony of Humboldt penguins, a rare okapi calf and a critically-endangered, cotton-top tamarin baby are among the new ...
Little Rock Zoo invites community to name new African penguin hatchling
The Little Rock Zoo has welcomed a new African penguin hatchling and is reaching out to the community to help name him.
At over $10,000 per kilogram, Africa’s first caviar is surprising the luxury food industry
In Madagascar, Africa’s first sturgeon farm is producing caviar – and it’s made its way into some of the most prestigious ...
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What Is a Bull Sprig? All the facts of the Pintail Duck
To many people, all ducks look alike. After all, they share the same features, from the plumage to the bill. For animal ...
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Ancient bird skull from Antarctica might be from early duck relative
The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...