These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

Scientists have now deduced that penguins may possess self-awareness as the Antarctic natives were ... received a bountiful response from the flightless birds when a mirror was placed in their ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

These unusual flightless birds whose natural habitat is for the most part in the Antarctic regions are varied in terms of their appearance and behavior. Penguins are found only south of the ...