Many people consider penguins to be among their favorite creatures on the planet. There’s something special about seeing a group of flightless tuxedoed birds gathering in groups and waddling from ...

Penguins Are Starting Families Sooner in Antarctica, and It’s Not Good News ...

The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in 1911 for almost a year on Cape Adare in Antarctica, the site of the world’s ...

Just north of the Antarctic Peninsula, there’s a small, ice-covered island shaped like an elephant’s head. Each year, despite brutal winds and a landscape of crags, cliffs, and glaciers, hundreds of ...

The evolution of penguins is a bit of a puzzle for scientists. Did their ancestors fly or were they always confined to land and sea? More importantly, were they always the size they are now?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday ...

A rancher took a backhoe to a critical nesting ground. His conviction, advocates say, “sets a crucial precedent for environmental justice.” Magellanic penguins have a stretch of white feathers that ...

The oldest known crested penguin fossils found in New Zealand point to a much older species. Researchers love New Zealand's fossil record of penguins, including giant "monster penguins" that are ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — All 24 Magellanic penguins at John Ball Zoo spent Thursday moving through their yearly health checkup, a full physical exam that helps zookeepers monitor each bird’s wellbeing ...