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 ...

At about 10 months old, the beloved bird has begun fledging, or losing his fluffy baby feathers and gaining sleek adult ones Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Baby penguins are easily some of the cutest creatures that human beings have ever encountered. If you are in need of some cuteness overload, just go look at a baby penguin. However, if you don’t ...

An extra large and in charge penguin chick has taken the internet by storm, securing a level of social media stardom many of us could only dream of - and his name is Pesto. When Pesto last stepped on ...

(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 ...

After reaching stardom in September, the king penguin chick is beginning to shed his brown feathers in exchange for new waterproof ones as he transitions into adulthood. Pesto, who lives at the Sea ...

Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on TODAY.com, The Forward and The Daily Orange. SEA LIFE ...

With brown fur and almond-shaped eyes, a baby penguin emerged from the comfort of its shell that had been home for the past six weeks. Its Dec. 15 birth at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska — ...

Pesto the baby penguin is big both online — where his viral fame is growing to Moo Deng levels of excitement — and in stature. The 9-month-old King Penguin's impressive size has attracted many animal ...

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 ...

Pesto, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, is nearing the final stages of his first molt. It's a crucial phase in a king penguin's life because it signifies the start of ...