Typically, the bodies of most penguins are not designed for flying or jumping from elevated surfaces. The highest hop ...

While most penguins belly slide on the ice to get around, the rocky environment of Patagonia makes that impossible, so rockhoppers hop, hence the name. In the water, they dine on krill ...

“However, there had been one site where we generally sample the penguins, that the landowner had noticed the number of rock hopper penguins in that colony had decreased by a lot. They didn’t ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Shedd Aquarium’s newest rockhopper penguin has taken its first swim and joined the larger penguin colony. Its new waterproof feathers help it glide through ...

CHICAGO (AP) — It’s bright and early at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and the penguin population’s newest member is ready for a wellness check. A fuzzy brown southern rockhopper chick is gently ...

A penguin chick who struggled to come out of its shell at the New England Aquarium earlier this summer, requiring staff to perform an assisted hatch, has graduated from drinking a specialized ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Shedd Aquarium’s newest rockhopper penguins have been named Douglas (foreground) and Pico. Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez Share Shedd Aquarium has named ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is announcing another birth with the first-time hatching of a female rockhopper penguin chick zookeepers are calling Darcy. The zoo said Darcy is the first ever rockhopper to be ...

If so, there's something new, cute and fuzzy that you should see. A baby southern rockhopper penguin chick is now on display at the New England Aquarium after being born at the beginning of this ...

SOUTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN CHICK IS NOW ON EXHIBIT AT THE NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM. THE AQUARIUM SAYS THE CHICK WAS BORN AT THE END OF JULY AND HAS BEEN GROWING BEHIND THE SCENES EVER SINCE.