With the help of a scarlet macaw, the National Aviary revealed the genders of its newest African penguins on Tuesday.

To date, the African Penguin Nest Project has installed more than 1,500 nests across five of South Africa’s penguin colonies, and plans to expand into Namibia next year, the only other country ...

In October 2024, the African penguin became the first penguin species in the world to be listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

An African penguin named “Mr. Greedy” died at Baltimore's Maryland Zoo last week at the age of 33, surpassing his species’ median life expectancy of 18 years.

He was one paternal penguin. Mr. Greedy, a prolific penguin dad at the Maryland Zoo, has died at 33, leaving behind a longtime partner and 230 descendants. The African penguin, who helped keep his ...

An African penguin from the Maryland Zoo, who helped produce over 200 offspring as part of the zoo’s species survival plan, has died at 33. Mr. Greedy was euthanized last week following a ...

African penguin No. 821, known as “Mr. Greedy,” left, with spotted chest, was recently euthanized at the Maryland Zoo following an age-related decline.

An African penguin chick was successfully hatched at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in October, and zoo workers plan to introduce the critically endangered animal to the public in early January.

An African penguin chick was born in the Denver Zoo on Oct. 15 and released from the intensive care unit earlier this week. (Photo courtesy of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance).

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The popular African penguin known as Mr. Greedy, a fixture of the Maryland Zoo who had sired many offspring and left “an astounding 230 descendants” over five generations, has died after an ...