Every year on April 25th, World Penguin Day reminds us of the incredible role penguins play in both science and our imagination. It’s a day to celebrate their resilience, ...

Emperor penguin colonies discovered by scientists through bird poop on satellite imagery Climate change negatively affects emperor penguins. A study suggests 98% of the species will disappear by ...

Emperor penguins can weigh 46 kilograms and reach lengths of 1.36 metres, 0.2 metres above their standing height. Another extinct penguin used to hold the height record, at around 1.5 metres tall ...

You can help scientists spot penguins from space or seek out new galaxies. Citizen science projects such as Penguin Watch and Galaxy Zoo offer a fun (and productive) way to pass the time.

For comparison, emperor penguins, aka the largest penguins now living, weigh in at a maximum of 100 pounds (45 kilograms), according to a release. And a male ostrich , the largest bird now alive ...

Satellite images show emperor penguins suffered breeding failure 01:32. Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica may be declining faster than the most pessimistic predictions, scientists said ...

Scientists that strapped cameras to penguins in Africa have found the animals dive deep into the ocean to drive their prey to the surface, enabling other seabirds to pick off the fish.

Ok, I am going to go ahead and admit something. I was a research meteorologist for 12 years at NASA Goddard Space Center and served as Deputy Project Scientist for the Global Precipitation ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Scientists in New Zealand said Wednesday they've found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans ...

But the scientists need help locating all those birds, and for that, they enlist what they call penguin detectives. "The citizen science part of this comes in because there's just so much of ...