Emperor penguin chicks have been recorded hurling themselves from a 50-foot (15 meters) cliff in Antarctica for the first time. The "unprecedented" footage, captured at Atka Bay in Northern ...

Here’s a list of Penguin species. In total there are 18 species in the penguin family, of which 11 are Globally Threatened according to BirdLife on behalf of the IUCN Red List. The list of penguins ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

In fact, you may well have just stumbled into the most contentious issue in the world of penguin science. Traditionally the number of worldwide penguin species has been listed as 17. These include ...

This boot is made for waddlin’ — and that’s just what Will the Central Park Zoo king penguin will do. The 15-year-old penguin recently hurt his foot, and the injury caused him discomfort ...

Lucas, the four-year-old African penguin who lives at the San Diego Zoo, has bumblefoot, a degenerative foot disease found in birds. He's been fitted with special new boots that helps him waddle ...

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

The king penguin is the second-largest species of penguin, just behind the emperor penguin. They can stand up to three feet (91 centimeters) tall, and, unlike most other penguins, are able to run ...

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – ...

Today Pororo and Crong are going to fly a plane that Eddy made. Pororo and Crong cheer when they see the penguin shaped plane specially made for Pororo, but the others are a bit sceptical about ...

Penguin Random House has announced the winners of its annual Student Design Award, who dreamt up unique revamps of iconic books by Haruki Murakami, Owen Jones, and R.J. Palacio The winning work from ...

In honour of World Penguin Day on April 25, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust has released a series of images of the aquatic birds from its site at Port Lockroy A young gentoo penguin receives a ...