A photographer went to South Georgia hoping to find a yellow penguin he saw three years ago. Instead, he found an even rarer ...

Once thought to mate for life, more penguins seem to be setting out in search of new partners come breeding season. Here’s ...

This is typically done by sampling their feces or what is inside the stomachs of dead birds, but this new method will help ...

An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white ...

Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. Seaweed that tastes like bacon, a yellow penguin, and more wonders ...

This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

giving him a burst of yellow on his head and cheeks and a black-and-white tuxedo. ‘That process is energy draining and his appetite will reduce a lot,’ Thornton said. King penguins are found ...

king penguin, little blue/fairy penguin, yellow eyed penguin, Magellanic penguin and the erect crested penguin. But then in 2006, the rockhopper penguin began to be recognised as two different ...

On a day when most other animals chose to be indoors, the Albuquerque BioPark hosted an annual event for Penguin Awareness ...

As the Falkland Islands are a mere 750 miles of the nearest point of Antarctica, it is here where many penguin species make their home. Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King ...

Where there should have been white or yellow it was replaced with black ... this has been seen before in their close relatives, king penguins, but it is extremely rare in an emperor penguin.