A new analysis of old data suggests that the endangered erect-crested penguin's bizarre nesting habits -- rejecting the first egg they lay -- is because they can't feed two chicks, and the second, ...

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For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating, ...

On the Antipodes Islands in the South Pacific, researchers observed a strange parenting move in erect-crested penguins — laying an egg that’s doomed to die. By Darren Incorvaia In 1998, a team of ...

On the heels of last week’s World Penguin Day, the Detroit Zoo is marking a milestone with the public debut of its newest king penguin chick, Atticus — who weighs a whopping 40 pounds at just 8 months ...

“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the warmer ...

As Hurricane Rita hurled violent waves and howling winds at Galveston last week, a penguin at Moody Gardens was unruffled enough to lay an egg inside the glass aquarium pyramid. It is Moody's first ...

BRONX -- The colony of little penguins that debuted in 2015 as a new species at Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo has successfully produced a chick that is now on exhibit with the rest of the ...