A nimal welfare campaigners have called for the release of 15 penguins "trapped in a basement without sunlight or fresh air" ...

The South African penguins are reaching a stage near extinction with just 9,000 pairs of species left. What could be the ...

An October 2025 social media post correctly reported that researchers documented an apparent effort by a troop of chimpanzees ...

A photo of two chimps carrying a group of penguins in their arms recently went viral online. Posted by the Facebook page StoryTime on October 7, the post claimed the primates have attempted to ...

The African Penguin, one of South Africa’s most iconic and beloved seabirds, is now officially listed as Critically ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.

Gentoo penguins are the world's fastest swimming birds. Campaigners want them freed from a 2m deep pool in a 'basement' at ...

Additionally, at least one King penguin is suspected to have died from bird flu. According to the Antarctic Wildlife Health Network which is part of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, ...

The emperor penguin is the heaviest and largest of the penguin species and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’s Red List as near threatened. Reasons ...

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