It’s easy to fall in love with penguins—their tuxedo-like feathers, their comical waddle, and the way they huddle together ...

Imagine stepping onto the icy shores of ancient Antarctica—not to see today’s tuxedoed, knee-high Emperor penguins, but to ...

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

Is mercury pollution a real threat to penguins? Here's what scientists have discovered and what mercury is doing to these ...

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

Executive producer James Cameron and wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory tell CNET how they captured never-before-seen moments ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

An injured king penguin found on a beach in Argentina has been released back into the wild. The Mundo Marino Foundation ...

Emperor penguins are the largest of all penguin species, standing up to 122 centimeters (48 inches) tall and weighing between 22 and 45 kilograms (49 to 99 pounds). Their robust physique, layered with ...

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 ...

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 ...