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 ...

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 ...

The first king penguin hatched at the Kansas City Zoo is a male, the zoo revealed today with a cake-cutting ceremony. Penguin chicks require a blood test to determine their gender.

BERLIN — A pair of male king penguins at Berlin Zoo are fulfilling a long-standing ambition to become parents, by adopting an egg abandoned by its mother. Ten-year-olds Skipper and Ping had ...

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 ...

Perhaps most famous, male chinstrap penguins Silo and Roy found love at the Central Park Zoo in 1998 and hatched and raised a chick named Tango. Their family inspired an award-winning children's book.

The king penguin couple may have felt the parents of the chick were neglecting their offspring. ... But the male penguin seems to have left the chick alone. "In the wild, ...

King penguin chick hatches at the Detroit Zoo. (Detroit Zoo) These king penguins blended and bonded during the July to September mating season but didn’t produce an egg of their own.

A pair of male king penguins at Berlin Zoo are fulfilling a long-standing ambition to become parents, by adopting an egg abandoned by its mother. Ten-year-olds Skipper and Ping had previously ...