A British wildlife park is down to only one female king penguin in their breeding colony after discovering they have been misgendering one of their females for over eight years. In a post on their ...

After three decades out of the public eye, a giant colony of king penguins has lost 90 percent of its population, according to a new study. The colony of 500,000 breeding pairs, long considered the ...

MELBOURNE – A huge king penguin chick named Pesto, who weighs as much as both his parents combined, has become a social media celebrity and a star attraction at an Australian aquarium. Weighing 22 ...

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 ...

On a beach in southern New Zealand, a creature thousands of miles from home made a rare stop. Irene Wright McClatchy News The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled by ...