Move over Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market and Royal Botanic Gardens — there is a new king in town, and it’s a baby penguin. Baby might not be the best word to describe the oversized chick who has ...

Baby animals have always taken the internet by storm — but this time, it’s a massive king penguin chick. Pesto is a 50-pound, nearly three-foot-tall baby penguin who hails from the land down under.

Every now and then, zoos post the most precious videos showing how their young animals are doing. And while these videos in and of themselves are worth watching for how adorable they are, sometimes ...

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Not since Chester Cobblepot hobbled through the streets of Gotham City has a penguin so enthralled the public. A baby penguin named Pesto at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia has taken the ...

Not since Chester Cobblepot hobbled through the streets of Gotham City has a penguin so enthralled the public. A baby penguin named Pesto at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia has taken the ...

The nine-month-old king penguin, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, weighs about 46 pounds. That's enormous, even by seabird standards. King penguins, the second-largest ...

We're following Pesto, a baby penguin that's turning heads and charming hearts in Australia. One man is running coast to coast to honor a veteran's last wish. Leaf peeping season is here, and Virginia ...

(CNN) — He’s a “walking feathery poop machine.” And he’s also a celebrity. Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just nine months old and 22.5 kilograms (50 pounds), he’s already bigger than his parents at ...

On Monday, the Cincinnati Zoo joined Hollywood and the entertainment industry in celebrating the late, great Betty White by naming a baby penguin after one of her iconic characters. In a press release ...

A penguin’s cute exterior is equally matched to its friendly disposition. As a species, penguins are rarely aggressive and lean more curious. Around humans, a penguin can be observant, unbothered, and ...

To science, she’s simply known as “184.” But on the empirical cuteness scale, the world’s first test-tube penguin scores a “100.” The still unnamed baby Magellanic penguin was hatched at SeaWorld in ...