Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the summer of 2015 to the spring of 2016, beachgoers from Alaska to California encountered something very strange: the bodies ...

It’s jumpling season!” the Seaside Aquarium noted in an Aug. 22 Facebook post. “It is the time of year when the adorable common murre chicks are jumping/stumbling off of the rocks they were born on.

Research shows that the common murre species died of starvation as the hot water killed off much of their prey Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

When Heather Renner and her colleagues began noticing thousands of common murres washing up on Alaskan beaches nearly a decade ago, they knew something was terribly wrong. It would take years of study ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A marine heat wave ...

After a marine heatwave called "the Blob" killed off large numbers of a seabird called the common murre along the West Coast between 2014 and 2016, scientists estimated that up to 1 million birds had ...

About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population is showing no signs of recovery, according to new research. By Catrin Einhorn The first ...

Murres, a common seabird, look a little like flying penguins. These stout, tuxedo-styled birds dive and swim in the ocean to eat small fish and then fly back to islands or coastal cliffs where they ...

On Saturday, March 7 at the San Pedro Valley Park Visitor Center, The Friends of San Pedro Valley Park will present an award-winning film on the Common Murre written, directed, and produced by Kevin ...

An extreme marine heatwave linked to climate change devastated Alaska’s common murre (Uria aalge) population, wiping out nearly four million seabirds — about half of their global numbers — over a ...