Documentary footage of a ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ walking toward certain death has gone viral—where did it come from and what does it mean?

Huge numbers of Emperor penguins in Antarctica may have died because of melting sea ice, experts fear. For the first time, scientists have used satellites to spot the places where ...

Users on TikTok have been posting clips from a penguin documentary that show one lone penguin veering off the path of its herd and heading to the mountains and, very likely, death and danger. And, as ...

Scientists have discovered that an annual event when Emperor penguins completely shed and regrow their feathers is putting the birds in peril as Antarctica is transformed by a war ...

A penguin featured in Werner Herzog’s documentary broke away from its colony embarking on its own mission towards the Antarctic Mountains. The penguin has become an internet meme for its seemingly ...

Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

A new social media trend has gone viral, centred on an image of a penguin seemingly straying from its colony into Antarctica’s barren interior. Dubbed the “Nihilist Penguin” meme, it has spread ...