Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 20,000 adult African penguins are estimated to still live outside conservation facilities. “These milestones are ...

Shadow, a female African penguin at Jenkinson’s Aquarium, has reached a remarkable milestone: her 40th birthday. “Forty is ...

Penguin colonies are declining worldwide; explore their adaptations, threats, and what their struggle tells us about Earth’s ...

Marine biologist and trip leader Kirshia Govender was paddling with a group off Mouille Point in Cape Town, South Africa when she encountered an injured African penguin in the water. Govender then ...

A team of scientists at the New England Aquarium in Boston recently created a retirement home for a flock of older penguins. The idea behind “geriatric island” is to build a more relaxed environment ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Off the coast of Cape Town, Robben Island is home to African penguins, whose future is by no means assured. Ariadne Van Zandbergen / Africa Imagery Of the world’s 17 penguin species, perhaps the most ...

The third African penguin, yet to be named, was born a week after Oscar and Duffy. His name will be determined in a naming contest at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, N.J. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) ...