Pesto the baby penguin is huge — both online and literally speaking. The nine-month-old king penguin, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, weighs about 46 pounds. That’s enormous ...

The image most people have of penguins is how they look on land — wearing their flightlessness as a burden for all to see, along with those smart little dinner jackets of theirs. Yet the first time ...

A research group consisting of Project Researcher Rei Uesaka, Associate Professor Kentaro Sakamoto, Professor Katsufumi Sato, and Research Director Charles-André Bost of the Chizé Institute of Biology ...

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants ...

The world’s oldest penguin has celebrated her 37th birthday with a cake made of fish and ice. Humboldt penguin Spneb has lived at Paradise Park zoo, in Hayle, Cornwall, since 1988. Marking the ...

Good etiquette is expected at mealtime in the penguin colony, but the diners with the best manners are found on a new, special island for birds of a certain age. There, geriatric African penguins ...