penguins

Chinstrap penguins are decreasing in numbers due to a lack of krill, their only food source.

Watch penguins hunting from their point of view.

After three years with very few new chicks, the birds are abandoning one of the biggest breeding sites on the continent, satellite images show.

An image of an adult penguin in a crowd of youngsters wins the top prize of an ecology photography competition.

The Fiordland penguins of New Zealand travel thousands of kilometers in search of food.

Compared to 500,000 breeding pairs in the 1980s, only 60,000 penguin pairs now remain.

If left unchecked, greenhouse gas emissions will drive ocean temperatures up, affecting wildlife in these regions.

Researchers and BBC filmmakers strapped cameras to animals around the world for a new three-part nature series.

Emperor penguins are among the largest birds in the world. Approximately 595,000 of them live in Antarctica.

Little penguins (Eudyptula minor) live on the southeast coast of Australia, one of the global “hot spots” of marine diversity most severely affected by global warming.

Researchers are struggling to understand shifts in the migratory patterns of penguins in the Southwest Atlantic.

See the volunteers and veterinarians who are helping to rehabilitate wayward penguins that wash up on the coast of Brazil.

Scientists pinpoint how penguins may have lost their ability to sense sweet, umami, and bitter flavors.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

A new model suggests emperor penguin populations could decline by 19 percent by 2100.

The rejuvenating effects of young blood, white nose syndrome spread, and penguin flu

Scientists have identified for the first time an avian influenza that infects penguins.

Three members of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Antarctic expedition team trudged 225 kilometers in the dead of winter to retrieve emperor penguin eggs in an effort to establish an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles.

The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012