The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These adorable birds inhabit New Zealand and Southern Australia. Known for their ...

A little penguin colony in Australia struggles during years with high penguin divorce rates, but the divorcees could have more offspring in the long run if they find better mates, a new study finds.

Nowhere is this shift in understanding more pronounced than on Australia’s Phillip Island, home to the world’s largest colony of little penguins (Eudyptula minor). These charming, blue ...

Little penguins, the subjects of the Australia Penguin Parade, are leaving love behind and showing higher divorce rates, worrying experts. Screengrab from Phillip Island Nature Parks' Facebook ...

Sometimes they just don’t work out, even in penguins that can mate with the same partner for several years. The little penguins (Eudyptula minor) that live on Phillip Island in Australia have be ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Little Rock Zoo gave an update Wednesday on five African penguin chicks that were hatched in 2024.

Relationships can be fickle. Sometimes they just don’t work out, even in penguins that can mate with the same partner for several years. The little penguins (Eudyptula minor) that live on Phillip ...

For more than a month, adult little penguins from a colony on Tasmania's east coast have not been coming ashore to feed their young, leading to chick deaths. Experts believe sea temperatures have ...

Residents south of Perth have called on the state government to ban visitors to a popular island to protect a species whose numbers have dwindled by 97 per cent. Only 114 little penguins remain on ...

From 2000 to 2012, the team peered into the secret lives of around a thousand pairs of little penguins on Phillip Island, in southern Australia – which is home to the world's largest colony of ...

The little penguin colony has dropped by 94 per cent since 2007, leaving an estimated 114 on the island. Environmental activists want the island to close to allow the population to recuperate.