Chicks starved first, going to their parents for a meal and finding none. Adults perished next. The Galápagos penguin population dropped by about half, Boersma estimates, from as many as 10,000 ...

A wee penguin’s hatching at a California aquarium marks a historic first for its species. The chick, which debuted on New Year’s Day, is the first little blue penguin to hatch on the West ...

A celebration of one of Earth’s most iconic and beloved birds, featuring all 18 species of penguins for the first time, from New Zealand, Cape Town, the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica.

The Galápagos penguin is one of the rarest penguins in the world, which according to National Geographic’s May issue, are considered vulnerable or endangered along with more than half of all ...

In Secrets of the Penguins, hundreds of emperor penguin chicks leap from a 50-foot cliff into the icy ocean below –emerging unscathed. This moment, posted on YouTube last year, is one of several ...

Here, a Galápagos penguin is perched on the molten rock of the Isabela Islands. The authors captured this photo during an 2021 expedition to collect microplastics in the Galápagos Marine Reserve ...

Penguin parents Pebble II and Fuego II were caring for the egg while the chick attempted to hatch, but aquarium staff intervened when the shell showed few signs of damage.