WASHINGTON — Scientists have unearthed in New Zealand fossil bones of what might be the heavyweight champion of the penguin world, a bird nearly 6 feet tall that thrived 55 to 60 million years ago, ...

The yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, has been crowned New Zealand’s Bird of the Year for 2024, securing 6,328 votes for its second win in the popular annual competition. The hoiho, considered the ...

Visitors to the Philadelphia Zoo can once again view some of their favorite feathered friends after months-long absences. Bird species – including Humboldt penguins, Caribbean flamingos, emus and ...

Baltimore, MD (WHTM) The Bird Curator at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has been appointed to lead a national breeding and population management initiative for Spheniscus demersus, better known (and ...

The amazing thing about filming penguins in the wild, “Secrets of the Penguins” cinematographer Bertie Gregory tells Variety, is that since the big birds don’t have land-based predators, humans can ...

ROYAL OAK — Lauren Brown and Bonnie Van Dam occasionally forget how awesome their jobs really are. Perhaps that can be excused as Brown, a Detroit Zoo penguin keeper, and Van Dam, the zoo’s curator of ...

Zoo Knoxville is closing its African penguin exhibit and sending its four remaining birds to Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg. The penguins will be moved to Gatlinburg in September.

Dead gentoo penguins tested positive for the virus, and at least one suspected case has been reported in king penguins. By Emily Anthes A highly lethal form of bird flu has been detected in Antarctic ...