Back in the 1930s, an ill-advised plan was hatched to keep a living penguin at the Little America hotel in southwest Wyoming.

A group of international researchers announced the discovery of what may have been the largest penguin ever to have lived. Recent fossil findings led to the announcement of Kumimanu fordycei, a new ...

One simple character swap changed Batmanhistory for the better. DC's Dark Knight has dominated the comic book landscape for decades now. And yet, Batman continues to embody pop culture gold deep into ...

Antarctic researchers discovered four new colonies of the near-threatened emperor penguin species via satellite images of the birds' poop Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Penguin poop that is ...

Mountain lions are adapting to their defenseless, predictable prey, which return to Patagonia seasonally to nest and breed, ...

Larry, a veteran king penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, will be 29 years old on Feb. 18. If the day's temperature at 11 a.m. is less than 50 degrees, he will, with his chin up, feet ...

New Zealand has been a haven for earthbound birds for eons. The absence of terrestrial predators allowed flightless parrots, kiwis and moas to thrive. Now researchers are adding two prehistoric ...

"Basically we tried to understand how flapping wings work in the water." This is an Inside Science story. The ancient ancestors of penguins gained their ability to swim at the expense of flight, ...

Bosses at Edinburgh Zoo have postponed the Wee Waddle, an event where penguins parade along a walkway next to their enclosure ...

Scientists found reintroduced pumas cluster around 40,000 penguins, altering movement, tolerance, and social behavior in ...

Despite an all-star cast that includes Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, it's a magpie that steals every scene in the Netflix family drama "Penguin Bloom." Directed by Glendyn Ivin, the ...