Researchers first unearthed fossils of the 1-foot-tall (0.3 meter) penguin back in the 1980s, but it has been an evolutionary enigma for decades, despite being one of the smallest penguins ever ...

Meet 'small diver': One of the tiniest penguins ever discovered. 4 never-before-seen emperor penguin colonies discovered in Antarctica, thanks to poop smears spotted from space.

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.

Little blue penguins, the smallest species of penguin in the world, have been added to the roster of animals at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, San Diego.. Also known as fairy penguins, these tiny ...

It was very small, roughly the same size as the little blue penguin–or kororā living today. At only 9.8 inches tall and 2.2 pounds, Pakudyptes are among the smallest known penguin species to ...

The penguin, named Pakudyptes hakataramea, lived around 24 million years ago. This small penguin, only about a foot tall, had a unique blend of ancient and modern features.

A small blue penguin waddled onto the runway at the Wellington National Airport in New Zealand, causing quite the scene -- and flights delays -- before it was rescued, according to reports.

What do penguins, sea turtles and ... STOKES: Even though we were comparing animals of really different sizes - the smallest penguin species, only about 30 centimeters long, to pygmy blue whales, ...