Adorable Humboldt penguins investigated a fish-filled Advent calendar at the London Zoo, with recently released footage ...

Penguins, it seems, can't really taste their dinners. They aren't able to pick up on sweetness, bitterness, or a meaty flavor known as umami, a study finds. Instead, they can only taste sourness and ...

A research group consisting of Project Researcher Rei Uesaka, Associate Professor Kentaro Sakamoto, Professor Katsufumi Sato, and Research Director Charles-André Bost of the Chizé Institute of Biology ...

“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the warmer ...

Good etiquette is expected at mealtime in the penguin colony, but the diners with the best manners are found on a new, special island for birds of a certain age. There, geriatric African penguins ...

The image most people have of penguins is how they look on land — wearing their flightlessness as a burden for all to see, along with those smart little dinner jackets of theirs. Yet the first time ...