And why do conservationists use artificial nests in the first place? Natural African penguin nests were historically created using burrows dug into accumulated bird droppings known as guano ...

A bounty of 10 African penguin chicks has hatched in just over a year at a San Francisco science museum as part of an effort to conserve the endangered bird. The penguins began hatching in ...

Mr. Greedy, a prolific penguin dad at the Maryland Zoo, has died at 33, leaving behind a longtime partner and 230 descendants. The African penguin, who helped keep his endangered species alive ...

The Denver Zoo’s African penguin flock is just a little fluffier this week after a recently born chick was released from the intensive care unit, zoo officials said. The chick was born Oct. 15 ...

After a celebrated, decades-long career as one of North America’s most reproductively successful members of an endangered species, African penguin No. 821 — known fondly as Mr. Greedy — has ...

An African penguin who left many offspring in his long life, he belonged to the largest colony of the aquatic bird species in North America, according to the zoo. By Hank Sanders The popular ...

But for a small penguin, such an injury used to mean amputation or even death. No more, said the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. One of the academy's endangered African penguin ...

The aquarium will be hosting a limited pop-up exhibit — the first of which was on Saturday — for the public to see the two 2-month-old African penguin chicks currently known as Penguin Chick 1 ...

An African penguin chick made its grand debut at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs earlier this month, hatching from its egg on April 8. “Waddle we do with all this cuteness?” ...

One of the most popular exhibits at the Dakota Zoo is also one of the newest ones. The new African Penguin exhibit has fast become a favorite of all those visiting the zoo.