Penguins have a reputation for being cute and predictable, but their daily lives are packed with odd details that rarely make it into casual conversation. Behind the familiar black-and-white look is a ...
The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in 1911 for almost a year on Cape Adare in Antarctica, the site of the world’s ...
Penguins are far more resilient and complex than their playful image suggests. They endure extreme cold, exhausting journeys, packed breeding colonies, and declining food sources through a mix of ...
For the first time since the opening of the Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins habitat at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium, a chick is being raised by its penguin parents. The unnamed chick hatched on or ...
It was an uncannily calm day on Macquarie Island, a sliver of oceanic crust located about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Typically, it's pummeled by icy winds and drenching rains. But ...
Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. A New Jersey aquarium is ...