The penguins perished by the thousands for a simple, agonizing reason: a lack of food. In two key colonies off the coast of South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds probably starved to ...

“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 ...

More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, ...

If you think you need some beauty sleep, chinstrap penguins have you beat. A new study published in the Science journal broke down the cold-weather animals' sleeping habits and found they need a lot ...

Rosie, the 4-year-old female penguin with a hot pink, orange and yellow band around her flipper, is described to be quiet, ...

According to a new study published by researchers from the University of Exeter and South Africa’s Department of Forestry, ...

The recent hatching of an African penguin chick is being considered a triumph for the endangered species, an aquarium in Massachusetts said. The chick hatched March 23 at the New England Aquarium in ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...