The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland has welcomed a new baby puffin named Macaroni. The adorable seabird joins siblings Gnocchi and Ravioli in the Sea Cliffs exhibit. Each family of puffins at ...

Right now, groups of Icelanders are taking to the streets late at night, armed with cardboard boxes and torches, in search of the telltale white bellies of baby Atlantic puffins. Once caught, these ...

Sometimes animals and birds face certain challenges that they can’t overcome on their own. Whether it’s the loss of their habitat, any kind of injury, or threats from human beings, they rely on us for ...

TikTok users were shocked this week to learn of an Icelandic tradition that compels people to throw baby puffins, called “pufflings,” off of cliffs and into the waiting sea below, but the tradition of ...

Young puffins have to leave their burrows alone, without the help of their parents, and find the ocean. Every year, local Icelanders set out to help. Eva Berglind Guðmundsdóttir, 8; Jón Bjarki ...