It was just a few months ago that Australia's beloved Pesto the Penguin went viral for weighing nearly 50 pounds at just 9 ...

Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. Seaweed that tastes like bacon, a yellow penguin, and more wonders ...

king penguin, little blue/fairy penguin, yellow eyed penguin, Magellanic penguin and the erect crested penguin. But then in 2006, the rockhopper penguin began to be recognised as two different ...

Conservation and research here is almost entirely reliant on grant funding from the UK government through a scheme for ...

The Detroit Zoo announced on social media last week that it has a new king penguin named Atticus that was born on Aug. 19. The "spunky and super fluffy 6-month-old" has not yet been put front and ...

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 ...

Scientists are trying out an alternative bio-indicator – the king penguin – to investigate whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change. We are used to hearing about the ...

A wildlife park has welcomed two new females to its colony of king penguins in a bid to boost its breeding programme. The females, who have yet to be named, arrived at Birdland Park and Gardens in ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the thousands of king penguins that densely congregate on the remote Possession Island each year now face a new threat: climate change. The birds spend most ...