A clip of a ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ walking away from his colony toward certain death in the distant mountains has gone viral—where did the footage come from, and what does the meme mean? A viral clip of ...

No one — and I mean no one — saw the Pittsburgh Penguins fighting for their playoff lives in Game 4 of their first-round series against their archrival Philadelphia Flyers, but that's the deal. So, ...

Game 1 of the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers will happen on Saturday. The NHL announced a start time of 8 p.m. but in reality, the opening faceoff ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition ...

HEY WE’RE GOING TO TALK PIRATES STEELERS AND PENGUINS. LET’S START ON THE ICE. TIM. THE PENGUINS HAVE HOME ICE FOR ROUND NUMBER ONE. LOOKING LIKE THEY’LL PLAY THE FLIERS IN THE FIRST ROUND. MY ...

Antarctica’s iconic emperor penguin has been deemed an endangered species as the sea ice it depends on shrinks because of rising temperatures. The penguins’ population is expected to drop by half by ...

As a decades-long penguin lover, a (perhaps futile) comfort I took despite climate change was that penguins weren’t outright endangered, save for a few species. But of course, with all things climate ...

Emperor penguins have braved cold, storms, starvation and predation to breed, ensuring their population survives. But climate change might defeat the iconic Antarctic birds. It’s the breakup and loss ...

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife announced Thursday.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “It’s very hard to think of these cute fluffy chicks dying in large numbers,” Peter Fretwell, a researcher with the British Antarctic Survey, told ...