The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

An emperor penguin chick hatched at SeaWorld San Diego last month has overcome long odds, becoming the first new arrival in more than a decade, the marine park announced Wednesday. While there ...

Kyoto, a three-week-old king penguin, nestles up to a toy penguin in the nursery at the Cincinnati Zoo, Aug. 21, 2008. The toy plush penguin was placed with Kyoto to simulate a parent.

17 emperor penguins live in a minus 5 Celsius habitat at the marine theme park and zoo where the egg was laid on 7 July, SeaWorld said. Some 300 penguins of several species live in the zoo's ...

The Fram2 crew selected a plush polar bear with an emperor penguin art embroidered on its chest to be their "zero-g indicator" on the first human spaceflight to enter a polar orbit around Earth ...