In an Instagram post on Monday, Jan. 5, the Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey announced the African penguin chick’s arrival, ...

Cute pictures show rhino calves and hand-reared penguins enjoying snow for the first time. The animals at Cotswold Wildlife ...

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The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Jay Ingram's "The Science of Pets" is a must-read about facts and myths about a global "petpourri" of animals, what's in ...

From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Scores of baby penguins bravely dive off a massive 50-foot cliff for their first ever swim in the Antarctic below, new footage shows.

In Argentina, the return of pumas brought top predators back to the landscape — much to penguins’ dismay. By Alexa Robles-Gil Penguins throughout the southern seas have to worry about being picked off ...

"The macaronis are a species of crested penguins," said Jill Dodds, penguin and pinniped biologist. "They have those fun yellow feathers that grow across their forehead like a unibrow." For now, the ...

The perfectly fitting name beat out Pebble, Uno and Bean in a public vote by Chicago locals that was held Nov. 11 through Nov. 20 Lincoln Park Zoo; Getty Chicago residents voted to name Lincoln Park ...

Chicago residents have chosen a name for Lincoln Park Zoo’s newest penguin chick — and the winning pick is a nod to a local sports favorite. The zoo announced that the chick will be called Waddle, a ...