A clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World went viral on TikTok at the beginning of 2026, depicting the doomed fate of a strangely stubborn penguin.

In the icy landscapes of Antarctica, a peculiar and haunting behavior among penguins has sparked intrigue and concern. The phenomenon of the "Nihilist Penguin" captivates not only biologists but also ...

A nearly two-decade-old video of a lone penguin walking away from its colony has resurfaced online in 2026, captivating ...

Instead of heading to the nourishing sea with the rest of the colony, a lone bird will turn around. It starts walking toward ...

In a clip that went viral on TikTok, a penguin breaks away from his group and goes to the mountains, but people don't ...

Learn how a decade of monitoring reveals why Antarctic penguins are breeding earlier than ever, and what those shifts may ...

Looking for the viral penguin walking alone to the mountains? The clip, often called the “nihilist penguin,” comes from a ...

After decades of hunting by local ranchers, pumas were pushed out of their territory. To bring them back, conservationists established Monte León National Park. Instead of feasting on sheep, pumas ...

Penguins across Antarctica are breeding weeks earlier as temperatures rise, signaling rapid climate change and growing risks ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...