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."

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday.

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 ...