Penguins are far more resilient and complex than their playful image suggests. They endure extreme cold, exhausting journeys, ...

Many people consider penguins to be among their favorite creatures on the planet. There’s something special about seeing a group of flightless tuxedoed birds gathering in groups and waddling from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Penguins aren’t just found in icy parts of the planet like ...

Penguins tend to evoke images of Antarctic ice shelves rather than sunny shorelines. Yet along the coast of South Africa lives the African penguin, a small, vocal seabird adapted to temperate waters.

Everything we thought we knew about penguins is wrong. They don’t come from the Arctic. They are not soft and cuddly, and they don’t necessarily mate for life. Actually, they are in big trouble. In ...

Off the coast of Cape Town, Robben Island is home to African penguins, whose future is by no means assured. Ariadne Van Zandbergen / Africa Imagery Of the world’s 17 penguin species, perhaps the most ...

Every year on January 20, people across the world pause to reflect on one of nature’s most fascinating birds as world ...

African penguins are running out of room to hunt. As industrial fishing fleets sweep through the same coastal waters, the birds are being forced into direct competition for the last dense pockets of ...

Lorien Pichegru is affiliated with Nelson Mandela University and receives funding from the NRF. Alistair McInnes receives funding from the Charl van der Merwe Trust. He works for BirdLife South Africa ...

The critically endangered African penguin has several predators to fear, including gulls, seals and sharks at sea, and leopards, caracals, domestic dogs and mongoose on land. A recent study has now ...