The brisk increase in warming rates in the Arctic is bringing rapid shifts in range for plants and animals across the region’s tree of life. Researchers say those changes can lead species that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists analyzed Atlantic puffin genes and found they had been interbreeding in recent history. They traced the first hybrid ...

Two distinct subspecies of Atlantic puffins are now interbreeding in Norway, possibly as a result of Arctic warming forcing some birds away from their usual habitat. The island of Spitsbergen in ...

The group, in collaboration with researchers from the UK and Norway, put tiny loggers on the legs of puffins to record their behavior. Lead author Jamie Darby said, "These loggers record time spent on ...

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