Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what comes next is "still being worked through."

The penguin appeared Nov. 1 on Ocean Beach in Denmark, a town in western Australia, and was spotted by a beachgoer, according to a statement provided to USA TODAY by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Belinda Cannell, a research ...

A lone and malnourished emperor penguin, thousands of miles from its Antarctic home, was spotted waddling ashore earlier this month on a popular southern Australian beach. This particular species was the first to be recorded in Western Australia after ...