The baby announcements have been sent out: It's a gentoo penguin. After 39 days of incubation, the egg, the size of a chicken's, hatched Tuesday evening in the Aquarium at Moody Gardens. This is the ...

Adélie penguins have been breeding on the West Antarctic Peninsula for centuries, but the region is one of the fastest warming places on Earth. Over the last couple of decades, this changing climate ...

A rare all-black gentoo penguin has been spotted on Rongé Island, Antarctica. Gentoos typically sport the more traditional tuxedo penguin pattern, but in cases of leucism and melanism, they can get a ...

The penguin population of Antarctica is under pressure from global warming. Four populations of penguins that breed on the Antarctic continent -- Adélie, Emperor, Chinstrap and Gentoo -- are under ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...