An Emperor penguin was found walking around a beach in Denmark, Australia. This area is nearly 2,100 miles from his home in Antarctica. The penguin which was named "Gus" by the caregivers who took ...

The largest penguin species in the world, the white bellied, orange-marked flightless birds inhabit much of Antarctica, with 61 known breeding colonies in the continent, according to the service.

As with most of the penguin species on earth today, the number one threat to their survival is global warming; both poles (Arctic and Antarctic) have experienced the greatest increases in ...

Emperor penguins are the tallest and heaviest of the 18 penguin species. They can weigh up to 88 pounds (40 kilograms) and stand 45 inches (1.1 meters) tall.

The largest extant species, the emperor penguin, is about 3 feet (1 meter) tall. Reporting by Will Dunham, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens ...

“The emperor penguin just looks like a child next to it,” says Ksepka. The species was named after palaeontologist Ewan Fordyce, who made his own mega penguin discoveries in the 1970s (see below).

Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom.

A rare white Gentoo penguin was spotted near the González Videla Antarctic base in Antarctica. Hugo Alejandro Harros Guerra “In this case, being an animal that has a mostly white body, it can ...

Minnesota has one species of penguin, the Black-footed Penguin. They're in our zoos (Minnesota, Como), of course, but this species perhaps could survive in wild Minnesota. Except for our winter ...