A quiet sunset paddle turned into a life-saving mission when a group of Cape Town kayakers helped rescue a starving African ...

If you’ve ever watched penguins gather on an icy shore or swim together in the ocean, you might wonder: What do you call a ...

Scientists just recognized a penguin species that had been hiding in plain sight for hundreds of thousands of years, and the ...

Gentoo penguins were secretly hiding four distinct species among them, and nobody knew about it until their DNA spilled the ...

Chinstrap penguin nests on Zavodovski Island fell 63% between 2011 and 2025, so the island is no longer the world's largest ...

Researchers used DNA analysis to identify a new gentoo penguin species in the remote Kerguelen Islands.

You don't have to search too far, or rather dive too deeply, to discover a year that held a place of pomp and prominence in ...

Pumas in southern Patagonia have discovered an unexpected new food source in the dense colonies of Magellanic penguins, and the shift is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about big cat ...

Zavodovski, a volcanic island in Antarctica, is silently witnessing a shift in the local ecosystem. Known as home to the ...

You might have heard that penguins mate for life, but for little penguins, the grass is often greener. These tiny birds, found in Australia and New Zealand, divorce their mate if they're not happy ...

Penguins, capybaras, squirrel monkeys and a Vietnamese magnolia snail were among 10,000 animals measured at ZSL London Zoo’s annual “weigh-in” on Monday. Every mammal, bird, reptile, fish and ...