China and Russia blocked annual talks on Antarctica from agreeing to upgrade protections for endangered emperor penguins, ...

Penguin populations are governed by the interplay of sea ice dynamics, prey availability and breeding phenology, making them sensitive indicators of polar environmental change. Sea ice extent and ...

An emperor penguin that made it to a beach in Australia was released back into the Southern Ocean after spending 20 days in recovery and gaining more than a few pounds, according to officials. "It was ...

An emperor penguin that appeared on an Australian beach journeyed over 2,000 miles from its native Antarctica in what could be the first appearance of the species on the continent. The penguin ...

No place like home: scientists discover that male crested penguins head home earlier than females ...

Phylogenetic studies of penguin evolution integrate molecular, genomic, morphological and palaeontological data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of Sphenisciformes. Analyses combining DNA from ...