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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones...
Wandering albatross soars over the ocean

Saving Albatross Lives with Bird Scaring Lines

Soaring high above the open Southern Ocean, a snowy, white wandering albatross...
August 2017
A puffin sits on a rock next to a puffin decoy.

How the Puffin Returned to Eastern Egg Rock

In 1969, 23-year-old Stephen Kress sat in a library on Hog Island, where he taught...
January 2017

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