This footage recorded yesterday at the Philadelphia Zoo, is so completely adorable that it'll melt even the coldest of hearts. Watch a group of humboldt penguins chase around a butterfly and be delighted.

A penguin that serves as something of a mascot for the military has just been knighted in Norway. Nils Olav, a 3-foot-tall King penguin, was bestowed the highest of honors in a fancy ceremony today-he inspected the ranks, and then returned to the zoo. In response to the wacky news, longtime rival nation Sweden…

NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams blogged yesterday about how he's totally unsurprised that the Sunday New York Times is suffering rapidly dwindling circulation. 'Cause BriWi picked up one of these Sunday papers the other day and was totally unimpressed. "I must admit that on Sundays it becomes a tough paper to…

Having trouble keeping track of New York's intermittently homosexual, bed-hopping (floe-hopping, maybe?) penguin population? We were, too. So thanks much to the reader with a copy of Quark and much too much time on his or her hands, who sent in this handy guide: