Quick Take African penguins faced an eight-year die-off from 2004 to 2011, with about 62,000 adults dying mainly from ...

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with ...

Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds. "We don't rush... we go down, sometimes we crawl, so ...

As fish disappear, African penguins are being pushed into direct competition with fishing fleets, deepening their fight for survival.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—A weathered, green building stands at the edge of the cozy suburban Table View neighborhood in Cape Town, just a few blocks down from a Burger King and a community library.

With just 10,000 breeding pairs left, the endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) could be extinct in the wild by 2035 if the current rate of population decline continues. To protect the bird ...

Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely starved to death en masse during their molting season as a result of collapsing food supplies. In fact, on two of the most important breeding ...

The Maryland Zoo just announced its most recent arrival: eight African penguin chicks hatched and are ready to greet the ...