Have you tried napping with your eyes open? Chinstrap penguins have mastered the art! These sleep-deprived dads (and moms!) take thousands of 4-second naps a day to keep their chicks safe.

Nesting Chinstrap Penguins Take Over 10,000 Small Naps Throughout the Day, New Research Finds The penguins approached the stones and took care in choosing one they liked. Once they had a pebble ...

Chinstrap eggs are more rounded than other penguins’ eggs. They measure 7cm long and 5.5cm wide, but at maximum weigh in a bit lighter at around 120g – that’s about twice the size of a chicken egg.

But a new study published in November found that chinstrap penguins take short naps thousands of times every day. They accumulate their daily sleep requirement of more than 11 hours in short ...

Animals with specialized diets—such as chinstrap penguins, which only eat krill—could be more sensitive to the effects of human activities than those that eat a wider variety of foods, according to a ...

Feathers from three penguin species—Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap—were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research Group ...

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research Group, in ...

Guarding their chicks from predators and wayward penguins in a crowded colony requires round-the-clock attention. During the breeding season, adult chinstrap penguins nod off thousands of times ...

To find the best nest site, Adelie penguins undertake the longest penguin migration on Earth. Chinstrap penguins live in the largest penguin colonies on earth. A king penguin's feathers offer a ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the sleeping behaviour of adult chinstrap penguins in the wild by attaching sensors that measure brain waves. Guarding their chicks from predators and ...