Staff at Birdland Park and Gardens in Gloucestershire were puzzled by a mystery surrounding one of their king penguins, “Maggie”. Despite displaying courtship behaviour and mating with male penguins ...

Pesto, the penguin, a viral 50-pound king penguin chick, has become an online sensation with over 1.9 billion views across social media. What has fans so tuned in? Pesto’s incredible size, which ...

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y., has at times used foster parents to incubate penguin eggs — but those couples have always been made up of one male and one female.

ROYAL OAK, MI – A fluffy, four-month-old king penguin chick – that is already about the same size as its parents – was recently determined to be a male and given a name. The king chick ...

King penguin foster parents, a 21-year-old male and a 7-year-old female named Gertie, are pictured with their new chick at the Detroit Zoo. Detroit Zoo ...

The chick was hatched on Jan. 1 by Elmer and Lima, two adult male Humboldt penguins, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, the zoo announced in a press release.. Elmer and Lima were ...

A male king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) can weigh up to 35 pounds, while females weigh slightly less. King penguins leave the hopping to smaller penguin species.

It was the male penguin couple’s first time incubating and hatching an egg, the zoo said. The same-sex penguin couple incubated and hatched an egg and took care of the baby chick at Rosamond ...

Pesto the baby penguin is huge — both online and literally speaking. The nine-month-old king penguin, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, weighs about 46 pounds.

Other same-sex penguin pairs who have fostered chicks at zoos in recent years include Electra and Viola, female Gentoo penguins in Spain; Skipper and Ping, male king penguins in Berlin; and ...

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y., has at times used foster parents to incubate penguin eggs — but those couples have always been made up of one male and one female. Last year, after ...