This year the small north-west town of Penguin celebrates its 150th anniversary. What started as a settlement trading timber ...

DENMARK, Western Australia – A family's beach day took an unexpected turn after an extraordinary encounter when they stumbled upon a creature far from its icy Antarctic home: an emperor penguin.

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday. The adult male was ...

The New England Aquarium in Boston has opened a new private island for their elderly African penguins, where they can eat and ...

It was just a few months ago that Australia's beloved Pesto the Penguin went viral for weighing nearly 50 pounds at just 9 months old. Now, the U.S. has its own baby penguin that some are saying ...

A Sydney aquarium has announced that Sphen, the older partner in a same-sex penguin couple, has died. The creatures are celebrated in Australian schoolbooks and an annual gay rights parade.

Australia has confirmed more than 25,200 cases in a population of 25 million, with 549 deaths. Categories: Environment , International . Tags: Australia , penguins .

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MELBOURNE, Australia — A huge king penguin chick named Pesto, who weighs as much as both his parents combined, has become a social media celebrity and a star attraction at an Australian aquarium.

is the world's smallest penguin. Every night, in many places along the coast of Southern Australia, penguin colonies return en masse from their daily hunting expeditions, under the cover of dusk ...