Unlike other birds, penguins lose all their feathers at once. This “catastrophic molt” leaves them grounded—and fasting—for ...

The new National Geographic miniseries Secrets of the Penguins visits the type of world Avatar filmmaker James Cameron is ...

Ahead of Earth Day, a sneak peek for National Geographic's The Secrets of the Penguins is revealed. Watch it here!

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These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

The new penguin chicks at California's Birch Aquarium are no exception! These three newborn siblings are from the smallest ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Mesker Park Zoo officials are excited to announce they have welcomed a new baby penguin on March 18. According to a press release, the baby penguin named Hopscotch was ...

To understand how far mercury has traveled – and how much has made it into remote food chains – Reinfelder and Rutgers postdoctoral researcher Philip Sontag analyzed feathers from three penguin ...

To the left and right of the frame are cutouts of penguins. An adult penguin is surrounded by four baby penguins, and another adult penguin stands alone on the opposite side. A floor decal of a ...

Feathers from three penguin species - Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap - were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research Group, in ...

Penguin feathers from the Antarctic Peninsula reveal mercury contamination, despite no local human sources. Mercury, a neurotoxin, bioaccumulates in food chains, affecting fish-eating animals.

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research Group, in ...