Three million years ago, a now-extinct species of large penguins inhabited the coasts of New Zealand, a distant relative of the emperor and king penguins we know today. This astonishing ...

There's a robot roaming Antarctica. Its target? Emperor penguins. Emperor penguins are the world's biggest penguin species and live exclusively in the Antarctic. The robot, named Echo, is part of a 30 ...

South African researchers plan to release scores of abandoned, hand-reared African penguin chicks at the Western Cape's De Hoop nature reserve, boosting efforts to start a new breeding colony of the ...