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

Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely starved to death en masse during their molting season as a result of collapsing food supplies. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa's coast without enough food to survive, reducing their population ...

The penguin does not rush. It pauses, turns its head, looks back at the dark mass of its colony, and then continues walking, alone, towards the mountains. In Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of ...

The "nihilist penguin" has been all over social media disguised as some philosphical genius. It's just a confused penguin.

Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely starved to death en masse during their moulting season as a result of collapsing food supplies. In fact, on two of the most important breeding ...

Overfishing and ecosystem disruption are leaving African penguins without enough food to survive. Their suffering signals a broader collapse in the ocean food web, but new policies and conservation ...

More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study. From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the ...