A Michigan zoo announced the happy hatching just weeks before the African penguins are set to debut to the public.

Penguins are highly intelligent and emotional animals. They’re able to recognize one another and even their partners. Some ...

Named Kairuku for a Maori word, the language of the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, that loosely translates to “diver who returns with food,” the penguins stood about 4 feet 2 inches tall ...

Million Years Ago 'Monster' Penguins the Size of an Average Human Dominated New Zealand’s Seas Sixty million years ago, a ...

They determined that wing feathering is the main factor for generating thrust. Penguin wings, aka flippers, bear some resemblance to airplane wings covered with scaly feathers. To maximize ...

A team headed by Hiroto Tanaka, an associate professor of fluid mechanics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, used a host of camera angles to film penguins swimming and analyze their flipper ...

Gentoo penguins have streamlined bodies and strong, paddle-shaped flippers that propel them up to 22 mph (36 kph), faster than any other diving bird. Photograph by Michaela Skovranova This ...

Adélies have a feisty attitude too. They’ve been known to take on potential predators – seals or large seabirds – or even attack visiting researchers with their flippers. Adélie penguins are ...

Penguins are counter-shaded dark and white plumage. Their Wings are evolved into flippers, and they live in water areas only. Most of the penguins will feed krill, squid, fish, and some forms of ...

To preserve heat, they have a dense double layer of feathers – about 70 feathers per square inch – large fat reserves and, proportionally, smaller beaks and flippers compared to other penguins. This ...