Puffins are enchanting little seabirds. Here are 9 fascinating facts about puffins and their marvellous, yet sometimes challenging, lives in the wild.

T here are some animals out there that are so cute you can mistake them for cartoon characters. This includes pretty much all ...

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Locals in the faded fishing town of Grimsby voiced fears for their livelihoods and the rich seaside environment Tuesday, a ...

At that point, breeding great auks were confined to an isolated line of sea stacks off Iceland. By a cruel irony, the final ...

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The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

Puffins aren't the only birds you'll see though; the Farnes are home to more than 20 different bird species, including eider ducks, guillemots, razorbills and four species of tern. With up to ...

Small birds picked up the chemicals such as dieldrin ... on the first leg of their migration back to breeding sites in Iceland. There has also been an arrival of Russian white-fronted geese ...

In the remote cliffs of Iceland, a strange and heartwarming ritual unfolds each year as darkness falls. Locals and visitors walk around the streets, collecting tiny, lost pufflings in their hands, ...

penguins and puffins, but little is known about how they use biofluorescent signals, the study authors reported. “In parrots and in birds-of-paradise, it’s hypothesized to be likely that they ...