Savor fish are a staple for penguins. Researchers say the birds' ability to taste umami disappeared more than 20 million years ago. Why Penguins Can't Taste Fish RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: By the way - ...

Penguins, it seems, can't really taste their dinners. They aren't able to pick up on sweetness, bitterness, or a meaty flavor known as umami, a study finds. Instead, they can only taste sourness and ...

As fish disappear, African penguins are being pushed into direct competition with fishing fleets, deepening their fight for survival.

Learn why sardines vanished, leaving tens of thousands of African penguins starving during their annual moult along South Africa’s coast.

The image most people have of penguins is how they look on land — wearing their flightlessness as a burden for all to see, along with those smart little dinner jackets of theirs. Yet the first time ...

Pesto the baby penguin is huge — both online and literally speaking. The nine-month-old king penguin, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, weighs about 46 pounds. That’s enormous ...

A research group consisting of Project Researcher Rei Uesaka, Associate Professor Kentaro Sakamoto, Professor Katsufumi Sato, and Research Director Charles-André Bost of the Chizé Institute of Biology ...

Adorable Humboldt penguins investigated a fish-filled Advent calendar at the London Zoo, with recently released footage showing the holiday-themed enrichment. In a press release, the London Zoo, who ...

This is the amusing moment a colony of penguins queued for fish as their keeper handed out food at a zoo. Jane Alakul and her family witnessed the Gentoo penguins standing patiently in front of a ...

The image most people have of penguins is how they look on land—wearing their flightlessness as a burden for all to see, along with those smart little dinner jackets of theirs. Yet the first time ...