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

Befitting their name, king penguins cut an impressive figure in the seabird court. As tall as three feet and weighing an average of 30 pounds, they are the second largest penguin, after the emperor.

The Detroit Zoo's newest penguin is Atticus, a king penguin that hatched last August. He already weighs more than both of his parents at 35.42 pounds.

Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just nine months old and ... king penguins are born covered in brown feathers. Once they ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown features a sex scandal in his ... Officials at a Cotswold wildlife park were baffled about why Maggie the king penguin had failed to work her charms on male ...

As king penguin chicks mature, they gradually shed their fluffy, brown feathers to make way for their adult plumage. In the wild, king penguins primarily live in Antarctica, where the population ...

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 ...

LONDON -- Unless you happen to be a king, a knight and a brigadier, the penguin pictured above is officially more important than you. On Monday, king penguin Sir Nils Olav received a visit at ...

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 ...