They sent off one of Maggie's feathers to be tested, which confirmed their suspicions - Maggie was actually male.

Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what ...

The first emperor penguin found in Australia has been released after spending 20 days in the care of a wildlife expert, the ...

As climate change bears down on Antarctica, understanding why some penguins end up meandering so far from their natural ...

Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...

After nearly three weeks of care, the first emperor penguin found in Australia has been returned to the wild. Dubbed 'Gus' by ...

Pesto, a king penguin who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, was shown on a social media video poking at ...

The emperor penguin was malnourished, alone — and on a popular beach in southwest Australia, waddling through the sand more than 2,000 miles from its natural habitat. Visitors to Ocean Beach ...

The largest penguin species has never been reported in Australia before, University of Western Australia research fellow Belinda Cannell said, though some had reached New Zealand, nearly all of ...

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The penguin appeared Nov. 1 on Ocean Beach in Denmark, a town in western Australia, and was spotted by a beachgoer, according to a statement provided to USA TODAY by the Department of Biodiversity ...

Standing there on the beach in the small town of Denmark in Western Australia on Friday afternoon was a male emperor penguin, about 2,100 miles from where one might expect to find it, in Antarctica.