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 ...

The penguins perished by the thousands for a simple, agonizing reason: a lack of food. In two key colonies off the coast of South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds probably starved to ...

More than 60,000 penguins have died on two remote islands off the coast of South Africa. It's a truly tragic statistic, but here's what researchers had to say as far as the cause. The University of ...

Reaching sexual maturity requires surviving a developmental window that spans up to 6 years. Retaining fluffy brown feathers past 12 months creates a life-threatening inability to enter the ocean. The ...