For soon-to-be Chinstrap Penguin parents, getting enough sleep is tough. Not only do the seabirds nest in crowded, noisy colonies, but they are also often on full-time egg duty when their partners ...

Nesting chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micronaps per day, according to a new study. National Geographic senior editor Christine Dell’Amore comments on how this benefits penguin parents.

Nesting chinstrap penguins grab seconds of sleep at a time, perhaps so they can stay alert enough to defend chicks and eggs from predators, and to ward off aggressive neighbor penguins. W.Y. Lee ...

The naps last for only around 4 seconds at a time, researchers said Getty Chinstrap Penguin Chinstrap penguins love a good nap — or 10,000! According to research published in the journal Science ...

Nesting chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 mini naps per day, according to a new study published in the journal Science. These micronaps last for about four seconds each, ...

Nesting Chinstrap penguins in colonies in Antarctica take over 10,000, 4-second naps throughout the day, according to research published in the journal Science earlier this week.

Nesting Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) with chicks, Barrientos Island, Aitcho Group, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Photo: Holger Leue/Getty Images . A recent study published in the ...

Antarctica's chinstrap penguins could get the same benefit of longer periods of snoozing by taking microsleeps during nesting season, according to a new study documenting one of the most extreme ...

But for chinstrap penguins, microsleep is the norm. Image Penguins barely sleep while in the ocean, but when they return to their nests, their brain waves slow to a pattern that is typical for ...

The art of nodding off appears to have been mastered by breeding chinstrap penguins, who take more than 10,000 naps a day, with each nap lasting an average of four seconds, according to a new study.

The art of nodding off appears to have been mastered by breeding chinstrap penguins, who take more than 10,000 naps a day, with each nap lasting an average of four seconds, according to a new study.