The Maryland Zoo, home to the largest collection of African penguins in North America, has announced the hatching of eight critically endangered chicks this breeding season. The arrivals mark another ...

Conservationists are making a Valentine’s Day plea to protect African penguins that can mate for life. The birds, which are Africa’s only native penguin species, are on track to go extinct in the wild ...

A new study on African penguins links food shortages and fishing to adult survival losses, raising the risk of extinction.

The population has decreased almost 80% in the last 30 years. New study uncovers startling fate of over 60,000 penguins: 'The ...

PRETORIA, December 1. /TASS/. Serious decline in the number of African penguins’ breeding pairs threatens the species with total extinction by 2036, BirdLife South Africa’s Communications Manager Kurt ...

A pair of adorable and critically endangered African penguins have been born at Michigan’s Saginaw Children’s Zoo. The facility announced the hatching Tuesday, although the male chicks were born in ...

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said Friday, with some populations dropping by 95 percent in just eight years. Fewer ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has elevated African penguins from endangered to critically endangered, a grim milestone signaling they are nearing extinction. The species ...

A distinct odor of dead fish, guano, and earthy sea lingers in the air. Loud braying punctuates conversations. At the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) in Cape ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — A tiny, fluffy African penguin chick hatched at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! It was born on April 8, and the zoo says the little one is growing up big and strong. The ...