King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants are falling out of sync with each other. Ecosystems are fraying. Coral ...

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Climate change has caused massive problems for animals living in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. With ice sheets melting at ...

After hatching in April at England's Chester Zoo, 10 rare Humboldt penguin chicks are all thriving in what the zoo has called a "bumper year for penguins." "It's fantastic news for the species and a ...

The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last ...

The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used ...

Penguins’ feathers are coated in a waterproof oil produced by an adaptive gland called the preen gland, according to Corbin Maxey, an animal expert and biologist. Penguin chicks, however, do not have ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic and Antarctic islands. The Southern Hemisphere is penguin territory, although ...