Little Penguins on Middle Island in Warrnambool, Victoria were subject to heavy predation by foxes, which could reach the island at low tide by a tidal sand bridge.

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Whether they were walking ( March of the Penguins ), dancing ( Happy Feet ), or hanging ten ( Surf's Up ), these oddly adorable birds took flight at the box office all decade long.

The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, " Earth Angel ( Will You Be Mine )", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts.

The original members of The Penguins were:

The Penguins were one of a number of doo-wop groups of the period named after birds ( such as The Orioles, The Flamingos, and The Crows ).

Documentary and mockumentary films, such as March of the Penguins and Super Size Me, were popular in the 2000s.

The Islanders won the regular-season title, yet once in the playoffs, they were pushed to the maximum five games by the Pittsburgh Penguins and to six games by the Rangers.

The Islanders ' next opponent, the Pittsburgh Penguins, were twice-defending Stanley Cup champions and full of stars such as Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr and Ron Francis.

The Penguins had roared through the regular season with 119 points, as well as recording a record 17 consecutive wins towards the end of the season, and were overwhelmingly favored to win a third straight championship.

The doors to the team's offices were padlocked, and it looked like the Penguins might fold or relocate.

Around the same time, rumors had begun to circulate that the Penguins and California Golden Seals were to be relocated to Seattle and Denver respectively, the two cities that were to have been the sites of an expansion for the 1976 – 77 season.

The Bruins protested this color change, claiming a monopoly on black and gold, but the Penguins defended their choice by stating that the NHL Pirates also used black and gold as their team colors, and that that black and gold were Pittsburgh's traditional sporting colors.

Heading towards the end of the season ahead of the New Jersey Devils, who were placed last, the Penguins made a number of questionable moves that appeared to weaken the team in the short-term.

In particular, Angotti gave the example of a game the Penguins were winning 3 – 1, at which point general manager Eddie Johnston asked the coach " what are you doing?

The Penguins were still, despite losing ten of their last twelve games, only two games away from losing Lemieux to the Devils.

The Penguins were simultaneously in the midst of a battle for their survival.

When the deferred salaries finally came due, combined with other financial pressures, the Penguins were forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 1998.

However, the Penguins were unable to secure the first overall draft pick as they lost the draft lottery for the 2004 NHL Entry Draft to the Washington Capitals.

However, they were swept four games to none by the Mario Lemieux-led defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins ( who, in sweeping the Blackhawks, tied the record Chicago had set only days before ).

Its leading career scorers were Ken Gribbons, who played most of his career in the IHL ; Bob McCammon, a lifelong IHLer who went on to be a National Hockey League coach with the Philadelphia Flyers and the Vancouver Canucks ; Bill LeCaine and Larry Gould, who played a handful of NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Vancouver Canucks, respectively.

The Sabres were subsequently upset 4 games to 3 by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round.

In early 1975, newspapers reported that the Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins were to be relocated to Denver and Seattle, respectively, in an arrangement that would have seen the two teams sold to groups in those cities that had already been awarded " conditional " franchises for the 1976-77 season.

On May 24, 2008, the Tiger statue at the main entrance to the ballpark was dressed with a Detroit Red Wings jersey as the Red Wings were playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals during that time.

He became the Director of Player Personnel of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991 as a builder.

Penguins have also found their way into a number of cartoons and television dramas ; perhaps the most notable of these is Pingu, created by Silvio Mazzola in 1986 and covering more than 100 short episodes.

In early 1975, however, the Penguins ' creditors demanded payment of back debts, forcing the team into bankruptcy.

Lemieux helped lead the Penguins deep into the 2001 playoffs, highlighted by an overtime victory against the Buffalo Sabres in Game 7 of the second round.

He scored his first playoff overtime goal in game five of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, his second of the contest, against Henrik Lundqvist to clinch the series, putting the Penguins into the Conference Finals against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Going into the playoffs, he scored his first career NHL hat trick on May 12, 2008, in a 5 – 2 win over the Dallas Stars in game three of the Western Conference Finals, en route to a 2008 Stanley Cup Finals meeting with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The pick, a 2009 fourth-round pick if the Penguins made the playoffs, was later turned into a 2009 third-round pick once the Penguins advanced to the second round of the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs.

He played in the final 25 games of the regular season and tallied 19 points, helping the Penguins into the 2009 playoffs as the fourth seed.

After spending the summer months breeding, penguins disperse into the oceans for six months ; a 2009 study found that Macaroni Penguins from Kerguelen travelled over in the central Indian Ocean.

Macaroni Penguins typically leave their breeding colony by April or May to disperse into the ocean.

Less than a month into his Panthers debut, he suffered a strained right knee while kicking a loose puck during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 5.

Just 14 games into the 1998 – 99 season, on November 25, 1998, he was traded, along with Harry York, to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Petr Nedvěd, Sean Pronger and Chris Tamer.

Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence suggests the Crested Penguins split from ancestors of their closest living relative, the Yellow-eyed Penguin, in the mid-Miocene around 15 million years ago, before splitting into separate species around 8 million years ago in the late Miocene.

Gomez saw a gem that led to the 2005 ECHL All-Star Game, and a top ECHL player that season ; the pairing led to Gomez giving Minard a shot after the lockout ended, and he played his way into the AHL, and eventually signing a two-way contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, receiving in 2007 – 08 his first call-up to the NHL.

In Game 2 of the opening round against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Öhlund registered his first goal as a Lightning, scoring into an empty net in a 5 – 1 win.

Green Day has frequently performed a live medley beginning with their original song " King For A Day ", morphing into The Isley Brothers ' " Shout " and breaks into a smaller medley including, but not limited to, The Penguins ' " Earth Angel ", " I'll Be There ", and Ben E. King's " Stand by Me ", then back into " Shout ".

* Luca Caputi-Ice Hockey player drafted into the NHL as the 111th draft pick in 2007 by the Pittsburgh Penguins and currently plays for the Anaheim Ducks.

The Penguins bid was officially off the table in March 2007, when the team announced that they were beginning construction on a new arena and that they signed a 30-year deal with the city of Pittsburgh to keep the team there well into the future.

Tucker's main inspirations can be divided into periods, although he was originally influenced by the depression, post-impressionists, expressionists and social realists, also keeping in mind his involvement with the Angry Penguins, and his responses to war.

Sidelined for the deciding Game 7, he forced his swelled foot into a skate to join the Penguins on the ice for their post-game celebration after defeating the Red Wings 2 – 1.

Punta Tombo is a peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean south of Trelew in Chubut Province, Argentina, where there is an important colony of Magellanic Penguins.