A baby king penguin resembling a huge ball of brown fluff and which eats 25 fish a day is not overweight, according to its keepers. Pesto is only nine months old but weighs a hefty 22kg (49lbs ...

King penguins breed on many of the sub-Antarctic islands between 45 and 55 degrees South King penguins are in deep trouble if nothing is done to constrain climate change, researchers say.

Baby Pesto is a nine-month-old king penguin who has taken the internet by storm by being huge and already grown taller than his parents. He’s bigger, in fact, than most of the other penguins in ...

Chocolatey brown, obscenely fluffy, and towering a head above his own foster parents – plus weighing ... only 200g (7oz), the nine-month-old king penguin is now more than a hundred times the ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Pesto the baby penguin is huge — both online and literally speaking. The nine-month-old king penguin, 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 ...

MELBOURNE, VIC — A huge king penguin chick named Pesto, who weighs as much as both his parents combined, has become a social media celebrity and a star attraction at an Australian aquarium.

Hot on the heels of the playful, pudgy, pygmy hippo who became a viral meme from her home in a Thailand zoo, a nine-month-old king penguin chick ... heavier than his foster parents Tango and ...

A baby penguin named Pesto, who at nine months old weighs 22.5kg (50 pounds) and towers over the adults at 90cm (roughly ...

Chinstrap penguins live in the largest penguin colonies on earth. A king penguin's feathers offer a waterproof and insulating layer to keep them warm. After a day's fishing, African penguins land ...