This is typically done by sampling their feces or what is inside the stomachs of dead birds, but this new method will help ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

The slab of ice — named A23a — weighs almost one trillion tonnes and could slam into South Georgia Island before either ...

The world’s biggest iceberg is moving towards a remote island of Antarctica, which is home to millions of penguins and ...

The world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South Georgia Island, making it hard for penguin parents ...

This would mean parent penguins would have to swim further ... but it is happening more frequently as the climate warms and more fresh water flows into the ocean, Mr Meijers said.

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...