Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just nine months old and 22.5 kilograms (50 pounds), he’s already bigger than his parents at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia. Photos of Pesto – who ...

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 ...

It's been a busy week in Gloucestershire from penguin popularity contests to a local indie band being honoured and rugby ...

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 ...

King penguins are primarily endemic to the subantarctic ... fervor for biting his caretakers (save for a few exceptions), and photos of him are quite clear rather than blurry as he lavishes ...

As the Falkland Islands are a mere 750 miles of the nearest point of Antarctica, it is here where many penguin species make their home. Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King ...

open image in gallery Michigan's Saginaw ... African penguins are relatively small compared to Emperor and King penguins. The birds have black beaks and faces and speckled white bellies.

King penguins are home bodies, and the species does not migrate. But why the colony on Ile aux Cochon has been so decimated remains a mystery. “It is completely unexpected and significant since ...