Topic: Penguins

World's tallest penguin used to live in New Zealand, fossils show

The tallest penguin species ever known used to call the South Pacific island nation home.

7 children's picture books we think you'll really like

These 7 picture books are among the best of late 2011

Banned Books Week 2011: Top 10 most challenged books of 2010

The 10 books most banned or challenged by communities throughout the US in 2010, according to the American Library Association.

10 most frequently challenged books of 2010

Every year at this time the American Library Association compiles its list of "most frequently challenged" library books from the past year. The 2010 list includes some titles carried over from previous years (No. 1 on the list, "And Tango Makes Three," has appeared on the top of the "most challenged" list every year since its 2005 publication) and some new ones (including No. 5, teen bestseller "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, causing The Washington Post to comment that making the list has become "a virtual rite of passage for young adult sensations.")

Here are the 10 books on the top of the 2010 list.

Huge, red penguin unearthed by paleontologists

Paleontologists have discovered a 36 million-year-old fossil of a nearly 5-foot-tall, reddish-brown penguin, whose remains may shed light on how modern penguin feathers evolved,

Penguins facing extinction, warn scientists

Of the 18 species of penguins, 13 are considered either threatened or endangered. Some species on the brink of extinction.