Most of the penguins seemed to chat with others while they were in the sea, away from their breeding colonies.

it was perfect and was making all the penguin noises,” Aaron recalled of the remarkable moment. “It was kind of funny, like as he came out of the water he went to do a tummy slide, like I ...

This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

The vast ice fields of barren whiteness stretch toward the horizon, creating one of the most isolated environments on the ...

coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match. For they had forgotten about matches. H.G. Wells, Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells, "The ...