On World Penguin Day, let’s dive into the fascinating story of why penguins can’t fly, and why that evolutionary ... their efficiency as swimmers meant they could catch more fish, squid ...

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have ... Cretaceous Period to see whether Velociraptors could fly. Instead, paleontologists rely on clues ...

Satellite photos showing poop stains in the West Antarctic snow and ice have revealed a previously unknown breeding colony of emperor penguins. A never-before ... colony. "I could see what looked ...

A little penguin colony in Australia struggles during years with high penguin divorce rates, but the divorcees could have more offspring ... Why don't all birds fly? Strange 'sea pigs,' sea ...

Now a novel pathogen threatens to rip through colonies of marine mammals and birds, potentially including penguins ... could be particularly high. “Highly pathogenic avian influenza has never ...