A new analysis of old data suggests that the endangered erect-crested penguin's bizarre nesting habits -- rejecting the first egg they lay -- is because they can't feed two chicks, and the second, ...

They're one of the only bird species to do this. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have cracked the case of why ...

Christopher Intagliata: For 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Hundreds of miles southeast of New Zealand, lie the windswept Bounty and Antipodes Islands. It's there you'll find the ...

More than half of the world's 19 penguin species are in danger of extinction — and eight of them live in New Zealand. Determined to save penguins from global warming and other threats, the Center ...

The docuseries “Secrets of the Penguins” by National Geographic captured footage of several rare penguin chicks for the very first time. Their parents are a mixed-species couple: a rockhopper mother ...

"The macaronis are a species of crested penguins," said Jill Dodds, penguin and pinniped biologist. "They have those fun yellow feathers that grow across their forehead like a unibrow." For now, the ...

WITH a wave of her flipper, Snares penguin Miss Simpson has started the long journey home. The rehabilitated Snares penguin, rarely seen in Tasmania, was released into the wild by the Bonorong ...