The emperor penguin, dubbed Happy Feet, was released into the water from the New Zealand fisheries vessel Tangaroa near Campbell Island, about 700km south of New Zealand's South Island.

The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand. The fossilised bones are of an animal thought to have been about 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall, weighing up to 80kg ...

Maureen Bailey said she will be sad to see him go but no longer has room for him A 75-year-old bride-to-be is looking for a new home for a 6ft-tall cuddly penguin ... the film Happy Feet - in ...

The little blue penguin is the smallest species of living penguin native to New Zealand and southern Australia ... up around 300 meters or a thousand feet from sea level. The greatest threats ...

Snares penguin parents take it in turns to look after their young. The Snares islands are the holy grail of New Zealand wildlife ... patter of hundreds of tiny feet as lines of penguins jostle ...

That crazy young penguin," said a University of Washington professor who studies the birds. “This is the furthest north I’ve ...

The Catlins is a stunning, wild, and overlooked coastal region in New Zealand, famous for penguins, seals ... here are often over 5 meters or 16 feet (unsurprisingly, there are also many ...

the Humboldt penguin of Chile and Peru, as well as four from New Zealand — the yellow-eyed, white-flippered, Fiordland crested and erect-crested penguins. Soon after, the African penguin was listed as ...

Small bodies of hundreds of penguins have washed ashore on the northernmost coasts of New Zealand, and although ... waters and can only plunge 65 to 100 feet below the surface of the Pacific.

Today, we know the tiny fraction of it that remains above the waves as New Zealand ... penguins may have been gigantic. In 2017, researchers found that prehistoric "mega-penguins" stood 5 feet ...

It's not clear how the juvenile male ended up so far north, but experts suggest he was motivated by his appetite ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins aren't thrilled with their start to the 2024-2025 season. The team is 1-2 and has given up 13 goals over their first three games. For a team hoping to return to the ...