A group of international researchers announced the discovery of what may have been the largest penguin ever to have lived. Recent fossil findings led to the announcement of Kumimanu fordycei, a new ...

"Basically we tried to understand how flapping wings work in the water." This is an Inside Science story. The ancient ancestors of penguins gained their ability to swim at the expense of flight, ...

Antarctic researchers discovered four new colonies of the near-threatened emperor penguin species via satellite images of the birds' poop Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Penguin poop that is ...

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, ...

A bird was spotted at Lovers Point on Thursday that had some wondering if a penguin had waddled into Pacific Grove.Sonya Chang snapped photos of the cute black and white sea bird while it was hanging ...

The 52 penguins at the San Francisco Zoo have finally decided they have better things to do than hang around the pool all day, swimming in circles. Now, it's time to hang around the house. They're ...

Larry, a veteran king penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, will be 29 years old on Feb. 18. If the day's temperature at 11 a.m. is less than 50 degrees, he will, with his chin up, feet ...

One simple character swap changed Batmanhistory for the better. DC's Dark Knight has dominated the comic book landscape for decades now. And yet, Batman continues to embody pop culture gold deep into ...

A spinoff of The Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)focused on Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, also introducing the titular team to the DCEU, including ...

A majority of the zoo's birds were recently relocated to indoor shelters. Dr. Carol Bradford, the zoo’s senior veterinarian, said some birds are still open for visitors to see. But their have been ...

New satellite imagery reveals four previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica. The penguins move as the sea ice they use as hatching grounds becomes more unstable because of warming ...

Despite an all-star cast that includes Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, it's a magpie that steals every scene in the Netflix family drama "Penguin Bloom." Directed by Glendyn Ivin, the ...