A 10-year monitoring project has found that the metal identification bands that researchers attach to penguin flippers can cause long-term harm to the birds and possibly to research results too.

Many research groups use penguins, one of the top predators in the Southern Oceans, as ecological indicators. For ease of identification and data collection, researchers often attach flipper-bands on ...

In the wild, you may occasionally see a penguin wearing a metal band around the base of one of its flippers. These bands aren’t the latest in penguin bling – they’re tools used by scientists to track ...

Penguins can move underwater with the speed of a swallow or swift, but cannot fly even as far as a chicken. How did a bird that in some cases shuffles 40 miles to its breeding grounds on unsuitable ...

Tagging penguins' flippers, a common scientific practice, drastically decreases the birds' rates of survival and reproduction, according to a decade-long study published in the journal Nature. While ...

Scientists in France have suggested that biologists who tag penguins to help track their movements could be causing them harm. The method could also affect data collected from penguins for research on ...