Emperor penguin colonies have been discovered and counted from space. For the last 15 years, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have been looking for new colonies by searching satellite imagery ...

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 ...

The emperor penguin was malnourished, alone — and on a popular beach in southwest Australia, waddling through the sand more than 2,000 miles from its natural habitat. Visitors to Ocean Beach ...

From kangaroos to koalas, Australia is home to some of the most incredible animals in the world. But surfers on the south coast were in for a surprise, after discovering a rather unexpected animal ...

A colony of warm-weather Magellanic penguins, native to South America, live in a habitat outside the Penguin Encounter, which is also home to nearly 60 puffins and murres. Emperor penguins are ...