After 60 million years of extreme living, seabirds are crashing

A new study finds that the world's seabird populations have plummeted by almost 70% in just 60 years.

Every day for sixty million years, seabirds have performed mind-boggling acts of derring-do: circumnavigating the globe without rest, diving more than 200 meters in treacherous seas for a bite of lunch, braving the most unpredictable weather on the planet as if it were just another Tuesday and finding their way home in waters with few, if any, landmarks.

But now seabirds, like so many other species, may have met their match.