"Basically we tried to understand how flapping wings work in the water." This is an Inside Science story. The ancient ancestors of penguins gained their ability to swim at the expense of flight, ...

The field trip to the Friends Experience in Chicago provided variety and exercise for magellanic penguins Howard, Georgia, Fitz and Mercedes The Shedd Aquarium penguins are making some new friends!

The unnamed chick was hatched Nov. 21 and was the third African penguin to be hatched at the Adventure Aquarium in 2025.

Larry, a veteran king penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, will be 29 years old on Feb. 18. If the day's temperature at 11 a.m. is less than 50 degrees, he will, with his chin up, feet ...

One simple character swap changed Batmanhistory for the better. DC's Dark Knight has dominated the comic book landscape for decades now. And yet, Batman continues to embody pop culture gold deep into ...

New Zealand has been a haven for earthbound birds for eons. The absence of terrestrial predators allowed flightless parrots, kiwis and moas to thrive. Now researchers are adding two prehistoric ...

The amazing thing about filming penguins in the wild, “Secrets of the Penguins” cinematographer Bertie Gregory tells Variety, is that since the big birds don’t have land-based predators, humans can ...

Last December, staff at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, New Jersey, celebrated the arrival of two newly hatched African penguin ...

A curious seagull strolled nonchalantly through the penguin enclosure at a zoo in Paris. It looked harmless enough but the seagull could pose an existential threat to the penguins with a devastating ...

Back in the 1930s, an ill-advised plan was hatched to keep a living penguin at the Little America hotel in southwest Wyoming.

Fresh off their botched theft of a heterosexual penguin couple’s eggs, opportunistic gay penguins in the Netherlands have now turned to snatching the potential offspring of lesbian birds. This time, ...