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Penguins, otter travel with passengers aboard train from Tokyo to mark marine park's anniversary
A train operated by Keikyu Corp. offered passengers a treat Sunday as it carried two penguins and an otter on its journey from central Tokyo to a station southwest of the capital. About 120 passengers, including children and their parents, had a chance to get ...
Scientists find remnants of 1.7-meter 'monster bird' in New Zealand
The fossilized bones of an ancient penguin the size of a pro wrestler have been discovered in New Zealand, scientists said Tuesday, dubbing the creature "monster bird." With an average height of 1.7 meters (5.5 feet) and a weight of 100 kilograms (220 pounds), the ...
An elderly penguin at a Saitama zoo — who shot to fame after falling in love with a cardboard cutout of a cartoon character — has died at the ripe old age of 21. Officials at Tobu Zoo said Grape passed away Thursday after a ...
Penguins are winners in first round of Chile mine project battle
They may be less than a meter tall but they have conquered a Goliath: Chile's vulnerable Humboldt penguins have thwarted — for now at least — a multi-billion-dollar mining project in one of the country's most depressed regions. The rare species is only found on ...
Mass starvation has wiped out thousands of penguin chicks in Antarctica, with unusually thick sea ice forcing their parents to forage further for food in what conservationists Friday called a "catastrophic breeding failure." French scientists, supported by WWF, have been studying a colony of 18,000 ...
London zoo begins resident inventory, counting penguin chicks, tiger cubs
Keepers at ZSL London zoo began the mammoth task of counting the park's more than 700 species on Tuesday, using treats to entice some animals out for the annual stocktake. From small invertebrates to larger mammals, creatures of all sizes are counted each year at ...
Threatened penguins bred through artificial insemination at Yamaguchi aquarium
An aquarium in Yamaguchi Prefecture has succeeded in breeding threatened Humboldt penguins using artificial insemination. It is the second successful artificial insemination of any type of penguin worldwide, and the first for a penguin species under threat of extinction, officials at the Shimonoseki Marine Science ...
Hokkaido aquarium aiming to breed endangered Humboldt penguins
Japan's northernmost aquarium will try to breed endangered Humboldt penguins from South America. Hidenori Takai, 41, who heads the seven-member breeding team at Wakkanai Noshappu Aquarium in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, said the program aims to show children how life begins again. "We don't have a luxury facility ...
Iceberg blocked penguin access to food, nearly destroyed population: study
A new scientific study says an estimated 150,000 Adelie penguins have died in Cape Denison, Antarctica, in the five years since a giant iceberg blocked their main access to food. The research was recently published in the journal Antarctic Science. It says a 60-mile (97-km) iceberg ...
