Young puffins have to leave their burrows alone, without the help of their parents, and find the ocean. Every year, local ...

Landowners’ hunting rights, along with regulations restricting hunting near colonies where eggs are collected, are laid out in a 13th-century Icelandic law book. A land register makes note of good ...

TikTok users were shocked this week to learn of an Icelandic tradition that compels people to throw baby puffins, called “pufflings,” off of cliffs and into the waiting sea below, but the tradition of ...

Eva Berglind Guðmundsdóttir, 8; Jón Bjarki Eiríksson, 12; Íris Dröfn Guðmundsdóttir, 11; and Anton Ingi Eiríksson, 14 throw four baby puffins off a cliff in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. It’s 1:15 a.m. in ...