Yet a study published Thursday in Science shows that nesting chinstrap penguins sleep just this way more than 10,000 times a day. They take a continual series of dozes that last just four seconds ...

Nesting chinstrap penguins take nodding off to the extreme. The birds briefly dip into a slumber many thousands of times per day, sleeping for only seconds at a time. The penguins’ breeding ...

However, gathering data on how animals sleep in their natural habitat has always been tricky and hard to do. But scientists did just that with wild chinstrap penguins in Antarctica. In doing so ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of Short Wave about building cellular 'robots,' the bizarre sleeping habits of chinstrap penguins, and a lost echidna found again.

The aquarium assures its guests that they will be. “Don’t worry — African penguins have unusual sleeping patterns and will keep you entertained until your drift off to dreamland,” the ...