The remains of animals dating back more than 10,000 years have been found in a cave in northern Norway providing the oldest ...

Scientists analyzed Atlantic puffin genes and found they had been interbreeding in recent history. They traced the first hybrid puffin back to 1910, after climate change had started to grip the globe.

Puffins fly as far south as Morocco, providing a link between ecosystems in Africa and the Arctic. The map of the puffin habitat bears an odd resemblance to that of the Viking raids: ...

It’s odd that the beaks glow under UV light because Auks, the family of birds that Arctic puffins belong to, are thought to have poor UV vision, according to Dunning.

In Europe, puffins have been listed as endangered. Here's why they're in decline, and what the future could hold for North American puffins, according to scientists.

The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world. In the Gulf of Maine, the comical-looking seabirds ...