CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA-VIEWS (CN)

CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA-VIEWS (CN)

(240528) -- HAIKOU, May 28, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on May 13, 2024 shows a seabird flying above the South China Sea. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Yuan Shuai)

CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA-VIEWS (CN)

CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA-VIEWS (CN)

(240528) -- HAIKOU, May 28, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 13, 2024 shows a seabird flying above the South China Sea. (Xinhua/Yuan Shuai)

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

IWAI, Japan - The photo (bottom) shows what is believed to be the world's largest bone fossil, a humerus, ever discovered of ''plotopteridae,'' a diving seabird that resembled a penguin, researcher Takashige Kawano, 52, of Saga Prefecture, announces at a conference of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in the city of Iwai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 28. Above it is the plotopteridae humerus previously discovered. The fossil was discovered in April 1996 under a layer of earth, estimated to be 34 million years old, by Kawano, in the town of Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Rhinoceros auklet seabird returns to nest on Hokkaido islet

Rhinoceros auklet seabird returns to nest on Hokkaido islet

A rhinoceros auklet returns to its nest on Teuri Island off Haboro in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on the night of June 22, 2015. The seabird, about 35 centimeters long, is capable of diving and swimming underwater like a penguin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rhinoceros auklet seabirds rest in waters off Hokkaido islet

Rhinoceros auklet seabirds rest in waters off Hokkaido islet

Two rhinoceros auklets rest on the sea off Teuri Island in Hoboro in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on June 22, 2015. Other seabird species such as the spectacled guillemot are also busy rearing their hatchlings, plunging the island into the liveliest season of the year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Spectacled guillemot seabird flaps wings at cliff on Hokkaido islet

Spectacled guillemot seabird flaps wings at cliff on Hokkaido islet

A spectacled guillemot flaps its wings at a cliff on Teuri Island off Haboro in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on June 22, 2015, with the onset of the breeding season. It is characterized by its red legs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Black-tailed gull steals fish from rhinoceros auklet

Black-tailed gull steals fish from rhinoceros auklet

A black-tailed gull (above) and a rhinoceros auklet are seen around the latter's nest on Teuri Island, Hokkaido, on June 22, 2015. The gull robbed the rhinoceros auklet of fish when the seabird returned to the nest to feed its chicks. The island is the world's largest breeding ground for rhinoceros auklet. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos.

Brown pelican at the beach of San Cristobal island of Galapagos. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos, dead

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos, dead

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos

Blue-footed booby on north Seymour island of Galapagos (CTK Photo/Ondrej Zaruba)

Adelie penguins in Antarctica

Adelie penguins in Antarctica

A seabird known as south polar skua swoops down on a rookery of Adelie penguins on Jan. 4, 2017, at a coastal area some 20 kilometers south of Showa Station, a Japanese research facility in Antarctica. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

IWAI, Japan - The photo (bottom) shows what is believed to be the world's largest bone fossil, a humerus, ever discovered of ''plotopteridae,'' a diving seabird that resembled a penguin, researcher Takashige Kawano, 52, of Saga Prefecture, announces at a conference of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in the city of Iwai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 28. Above it is the plotopteridae humerus previously discovered. The fossil was discovered in April 1996 under a layer of earth, estimated to be 34 million years old, by Kawano, in the town of Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture.