While Blake Lively narrates National Geographic’s new docuseries, Secrets of the Penguins, it’s the baby penguins that really steal the show. Lively, 37, lends her voice to the three-part ...

Millions more Adélie penguins may be marching across Antarctica than earlier counts suggested. Nearly six million of the tuxedoed penguins may live in East Antarctica, more than double the ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an evolutionary urge to reach beyond their boundaries. Today ...

The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled by the emperor penguin. Standing more than 4 feet tall, the massive bird is the largest penguin in the world, uniquely ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins may not be participating in the Stanley Cup playoffs this season. But a whole lot of ex-Penguins are. - F Jordan Staal: Staal played for the Penguins from his draft year in ...

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It overlooks a colony of Adelie penguins, and scientists who study these tough, charming birds live next to the hut every summer. About halfway between those two dwellings, on Cape Evans ...

Molecular ecology is the use of molecular genetic tools to study ecological questions. Techniques such as microarrays and DNA markers are used to study the interactions and diversity of natural ...

When you think of a monogamous animal, your mind might immediately go to penguins. It’s been a long-believed myth that all penguins are not only monogamous, but mate for life and never search for, or ...