GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Just like us humans, animals need to get their routine checkup at the doctor’s office, too. The Magellanic penguin colony at John Ball Zoo had its annual physical exam with ...

"We're excited for zoo guests to watch them interact - and each chick has a built-in swimming buddy." ...

For king penguins, there may be nothing sexier than a nice beak. The species, one of the biggest of the penguins, come onshore to find mates and breed in large colonies, and are monogamous throughout ...

WASHINGTON – The newest tool for biologists is the baby penguin robotic spy. It's pretty darn cute, and so convincing that penguins essentially talk to it, as if it is a potential mate for their ...

It turns out that to tell the sex of a Galápagos penguin, all you need is a ruler. In a paper published April 5 in the journal Endangered Species Research, scientists at the University of Washington ...