A rare and fragile all-white little penguin has washed up on a beach in South Australia. The Earliest Category 5 Hurricane Ever Recorded Just Formed Morning coffee may help you live longer ...

Little penguins expert Diane Colombelli-Négrel has been studying the birds in South Australia for more than 10 years. She said she had never seen a leucistic little penguin before, nor could ...

Pearl is a very pale and very rare leucistic little penguin. She is currently in the care of the Wildlife Welfare Organisation at Goolwa after being found on Boomer Beach at Port Elliot in an ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton ... moment came when they reached South Georgia – where Shackleton sought help from a whaling ...

So much has been written about Antarctica. Inquisitions into the exploits of Scott, Shackleton, Mawson and others from the heroic age of exploration are legion. Literary scientists have dissected the ...

Government has implemented island closures with immediate effect to enhance the conservation of South Africa’s penguin populations. This follows the recent finalisation of a historic settlement ...

There is more good news for penguins as the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has implemented agreed island closures with immediate effect to enhance the ...

Settlement secures biologically meaningful foraging areas for African Penguins for next decade to help bring the species back from the brink of extinction. BirdLife South Africa and SANCCOB today ...

The agreement establishes critical island closures to protect South Africa’s penguin populations at six locations around breeding colonies at Dassen Island, Robben Island, Stony Point ...

Scientists have used ancient DNA to help reconstruct 6,000 years of penguin history at the South Pole. The researchers found that Adélie penguins had taken over the habitat of southern elephant ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank more ... ice and then in boats to the British overseas territory of South Georgia, some 1 400 kilometres east of the Falklands.

Show more On 5 January 1922, world-famous Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton died of a heart attack in his cabin aboard The Quest during his final expedition to the South Pole. Moored in Norway ...