The female penguin belongs to the Gentoo species, animals that typically have bright reddish-orange bills and black heads with white patches around their eyes. But on Jan. 4, researchers at the ...

The standard black-and-white coloring found on penguins serves as camouflage that aids the bird in fishing, so it's unusual to find a penguin without it. “It is a fairly rare phenomenon ...

And how rare is an all-black penguin, rather than the black-and-white tuxedo-like colorings on most of the adorable, big, wabbly birds? It's a one-in-a-zillion mutation, scientists say.

ANTARCTICA, — Among a colony of black and white penguins with bright orange beaks in Antarctica is one animal that stands boldly apart from the rest. Scientists have discovered that one of the ...

“My Penguin Friend” tells the story of DinDim, a penguin that bonded with João (Jean Reno), a grieving fisherman in Brazil. DinDim made eight 5,000-mile trips from his nest in Argentina to ...

King penguins usually have both black and white feathers with a slight tinge of yellow along their neck, giving them their signature tuxedo look. The yellow penguin is entirely void of all melanin ...

Black-and-white tuxedos may be the conventional dress code in the penguin world ... At the time, Adams was leading a two-month photography expedition through the South Atlantic and had stopped ...

Not all penguins wear tuxes. A rare white penguin has been spotted at a scientific base in Antarctica, where it was standing out like a sore thumb among its black-and-white brethren. The bird ...

In a sea of black and white penguins waddling on Antarctica's Aitcho Islands, National Geographic Explorers spotted an extremely rare, nearly all-white Chinstrap penguin this week. David Stephens ...