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 ...

Members of the Pinamar Ecological Foundation made a surprising discovery on a beach south of Buenos Aires last August. Standing in the sand was an injured king penguin, the species closest to emperor ...

Some penguins are wonderfully cooperative: they breed in predictable, accessible places, with tidy, well-defined colonies, ...

Scientists unable to determine what has dramatically reduced the penguin colony. ROME -- Scientists from the Center for Biological Studies in Chizé, France, are sounding alarms over the unexplained ...

On a beach in southern New Zealand, a creature thousands of miles from home made a rare stop. Irene Wright McClatchy News The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled by ...

, the very model of modern Major General. Yes, he is a penguin! To give him his full title (and the respect he deserves), Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands, is the world’s ...

Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard in 2005. And on Friday he was knighted. Not bad for a 3-foot tall ...

The southern sea lion (Otaria flavescens) is widely distributed around the Falkland Islands and likes to reside along shorelines and beaches. Adult males can weigh up to 770 pounds. They feed on fish, ...