The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an evolutionary urge to reach beyond their boundaries. Today, many are ...

Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...

Fossils unearthed in New Zealand reveal Kumimanu fordycei, a giant penguin from the Paleocene epoch, weighing around 350 ...

The third-oldest zoo in the U.S. is evolving to embrace a mission of conservation and education. Here's how that affects the animals you see.

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin Lessons,” based on the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, is in the ...

Image The residents of the “country club for older animals” are sectioned off from three other islands inhabited by penguins via a mesh gate in the water. Below, a penguin trainer cuddling ...

This new set-up comes after the senior swimmers had a hard time fighting for their food and space with the younger penguins. "Animals, especially penguins, can be territorial, especially during ...