Poohsticks, the game in which Piglet and Winnie the Pooh throw sticks into the river from one side of a bridge, and then rush ...

Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early ...

Surf for any amount of time, and you're bound to encounter a variety of critters. A penguin in the lineup still turns heads, ...

Adélie penguins live on the Antarctic continent and on many small, surrounding coastal islands. They spend the winter offshore in the seas surrounding the Antarctic pack ice. Adélies feed on ...

New Zealand was once home to the tallest penguin species ever known — a lanky bird that stood as high as 4.2 feet (1.3 meters). The penguin, dubbed Kairuku grebneffi, lived about 27 million ...

Olivia Richardson has raised over $2,000 to help build a habitat for African penguins at Sylvan Heights Bird Park by making and selling handcrafted bird feeders.

An international team of researchers fitted penguins with thumbdrive-sized video recorders, tracking the birds at seven sites in the southern oceans. And, they found the birds target jellies.

The penguin exercise program at Asahikawa Zoo began in 2003 to fend off the obesity that sets in each winter. And while the health of the tuxedo-ed birds may have been the reason the program was ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It’s noisy, smelly, shy – and New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fiercely fought avian election on Monday ...

New research in which king penguins were filmed walking on treadmills has proved that the fatter the bird, the less steady it is on its feet.