SYDNEY — Wildlife officials in the southern Australia on Wednesday announced an investigation into the mass death of 58 penguins they believe were killed in a dog attack. The carcasses of the fairy ...

Gentoo penguins were thought to be a standalone species, but a new study says there are four distinct species — and it could ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The only emperor ...

Alfred “Alfie” Date was born on January 13, 1906. In 2015, at age 109, he was widely reported as Australia’s oldest man. He learned to knit in the 1930s when his sister-in-law handed him needles and ...

If there's one thing you probably would never expect to find on an Australian beach, it's a penguin. A woman was shocked recently when her and her children found a lone Emperor penguin sitting on the ...

There are just 15 breeding pairs returning to nest at Manly each year, and the population is stubbornly refusing to grow.

During times of uncertainty, it can be helpful to turn to the natural world for comfort and inspiration. In the early throes of the pandemic this past spring, a photo of two snuggly Australian ...

The penguin had been cared for by a registered wildlife caregiver, who named him Gus after the first Roman emperor Augustus. The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia ...

The carcases of the fairy penguins -- the world's smallest penguin species -- were found strewn across a beach in Tasmania, a island-state off the mainland. "We would like to remind dog owners of the ...