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

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a plunge. The one-of-its-kind footage, captured at Atka Bay in Northern ...

Flightless Bird in Cartoon Flat Style ... vector stock illustration, concept of Hobby Games, Antarctic Animals, Quarantine pastime, Wildlife. Antarctic animals – Polar Bear and Emperor penguin playing ...

Brown prefers these bigger penguins to stay on the “Antarctic” side ... One of the birds that can is a Southern Cassowary, a large, flightless bird in the ratite family, which also includes ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

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

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.