Overfishing and ecosystem disruption are leaving African penguins without enough food to survive. Their suffering signals a broader collapse in the ocean food web, but new policies and conservation ...

Over 60,000 African penguins have starved to death along the coast of South Africa, after their food supply collapsed. At the root of the problem was the collapse of sardine numbers. The little fish ...

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 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 ...

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.

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. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

The Tulsa Zoo has officially named its two female African penguin chicks: Robben and Pearl. The older chick, Robben, is named after Robben Island, a historic site off the coast of South Africa known ...

Once abundant along Africa’s coastlines, the African penguin is now critically endangered, facing extinction. But there is ...

BALTIMORE, Md. (WHTM) — As the number of African penguins in the wild falls, the Maryland Zoo has hatched eight chicks. The zoo says they have the largest population of African penguins in North ...

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 ...