Genetic research has revealed that there is a lot more to New Zealand’s 2024 Bird of the Year than meets the eye. Scientists ...

Penguin trainer Nick Vitale unlocks a door to a small cinderblock room. It's chilly, with buzzing fluorescent lights and a roaring ventilation fan. Also, it smells like fish. The perfect penguin love ...

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around ...

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A re-establishing little penguin colony, once locally extinct, is finding its feet on the NSW far south coast.

“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the warmer ...

The zoo is soliciting potential names for the chick, whose sex is still TBD, via its social media channels and will release ...

The loss of ice in one region of Antarctica last year likely resulted in none of the emperor penguin chicks surviving in four colonies, researchers reported Thursday. Emperor penguins hatch their eggs ...

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The Humboldt penguin population along the central coast of Chile has dramatically decreased, making them one of the world's most vulnerable penguin species and putting them at risk of extinction, ...

The decrease in the Humboldt penguin population has put them at risk of extinction. Threats to the penguins in the wild include marine pollution, lack of pet supervision, disturbance of nesting sites ...

A never-before-seen emperor penguin colony — one of only 66 known to exist — has been spotted by accident in satellite photographs of West Antarctica that clearly show their guano, or droppings, ...