Eight African penguins hatched at the Maryland Zoo. The offspring of these chicks could one day help boost the population of ...

The Maryland Zoo has announced the hatching of eight critically endangered African penguin chicks this breeding season.

Around 62,000 penguins died on two islands off the coast of South Africa over the course of eight years. A new study has ...

A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off ...

Over 60,000 African penguins have disappeared in South Africa within a decade, primarily due to starvation as their main food ...

A catastrophic collapse in sardine numbers along South Africa’s west coast left an estimated 60,000 African penguins dead ...

More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study. From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the ...

Thousands of penguins living off the coast of South Africa likely starved to death en masse during their moulting season due to the collapse of their food supplies, according to a study released ...

Because a key food source dropped to less than a quarter of its peak levels in 17 of the past 20 years, the findings could be crucial for securing the penguins’ long-term survival. Penguins living ...

African penguins along South Africa’s coast have likely starved in large numbers during their moulting season because of ...

Eight African penguins hatched at the Maryland Zoo during the recent breeding season, adding to the population of the ...