Fossils unearthed in New Zealand reveal Kumimanu fordycei, a giant penguin from the Paleocene epoch, weighing around 350 ...

The third-oldest zoo in the U.S. is evolving to embrace a mission of conservation and education. Here's how that affects the ...

This 350-pound penguin from 57 million years ago could outswim sharks, outweigh Shaq, and change everything we thought we ...

The better nature programs generally avoid the “Disneyfication” of their subjects, aka the anthropomorphic interpretation of animal activity that’s really about evolution and instinct.

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an evolutionary urge to reach beyond their boundaries. Today, many are ...

Male emperor penguins are famous for going without food ... The scales may also provide insight into the early evolution of the insect’s tubelike tongue, or proboscis, which the authors suggest ...

Pushing the boundaries of wildlife filmmaking, a three-person crew endured an astonishing 274 days filming on the Ekström Ice Shelf in Antarctica, home to a colony of 20,000 emperor ...

The emperor penguin is instantly familiar as the star ... We’re getting close to recreating the first step in evolution of life ...

“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 ...

Evolution Fossil records indicate that emperor penguins’ earliest common ancestor lived as long as 60 million years ago — soon after the dinosaur extinction. Later penguin ancestors are ...

At four-and-a-half feet tall, the Kairuku waewaeroa stood larger than an emperor penguin ... tell them more about this leggy penguin’s body, habits, and evolution. Kairuku waewaeroa was hardly ...