Big eyes, tiny noses and round cheeks; scientists explain why animals like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo have us hooked.

The Lincoln Children’s Zoo is asking for the community’s help in naming their new female Humboldt penguin chick.

The Lincoln Children's Zoo has narrowed down name suggestions for a female Humboldt penguin chick that hatched Dec. 15. After collecting more than 200 name suggestions last week for a Humboldt penguin ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. But what ...

The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

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We know what highway we’re taking the next time we visit Antarctica — the one that a group of penguins travel each and every ...

A brand new little family is growing at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut: Four tiny baby African penguins. And in the video ...

"Icebergs have grounded there in the past and that has caused significant mortality to penguin chicks and seal pups," he said. Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest ...

millions of penguins and seals,” Meijers said. “There’s lots of pups and chicks and they’re all still dependent on their parents." The parents go out quite a way into the water and forage.

For more than a month, adult little penguins from a colony on Tasmania's east coast have not been coming ashore to feed their young, leading to chick deaths. Experts believe sea temperatures have ...