T here are some animals out there that are so cute you can mistake them for cartoon characters. This includes pretty much all ...

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

For bird watchers, they are one of the must-see species to tick off. Their funny personalities ... below But the future for Scotland's beloved puffin visitors may be uncertain.

In the British Isles, where puffins have not been hunted for a century (puffin hunting remains legal in Iceland), the seven-inch-tall birds can be remarkably tame, tolerating human visitors.

The puffin population on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast has been declared “stable” after a devastating bird ...