Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive.

Video shows a wayward penguin swimming and diving among beachgoers along Brazil’s most iconic shoreline. It might be ...

Penguins are flightless birds found primarily on the coasts and islands of Antarctica, South America, Australia, New Zealand, ...

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

Penguin trainer Nick Vitale unlocks a door to a small cinderblock room. It's chilly, with buzzing fluorescent lights and a roaring ventilation fan. Also, it smells like fish. The perfect penguin ...

You’d think that penguins would love the meaty taste of fish, but it turns out that they may not be able to taste their food much at all. A new genetic study out of the University of Michigan ...

The geriatric penguins, who are mostly in their 30s, receive close monitoring for ailments such as cataracts and arthritis. They are fed fish that have been injected with extra water to promote ...

Pesto the baby penguin is huge — both online and literally speaking. The nine-month-old king penguin, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, weighs about 46 pounds. That’s ...

When she moves the fish closer to its beak, the penguin turns away haughtily. An otter sniffs the fish, then runs away. For the penguins and otters at Japan’s Hakone-en Aquarium, ...

Understandably, the true story of the kindhearted human who saved the loyal penguin went viral (albeit with some trumped-up claims, like that Dindim traveled 5,000 miles each way to visit his ...

There, geriatric African penguins don’t have to worry about younger birds bombarding the buckets of fish delivered by trainers at the New England Aquarium in Boston.