Each year as part of the celebrations a competition called The Peng-Win Championships takes place, where penguins from zoos ...

Nine-month-old Pesto, a comically large king penguin chick at Australia’s Sea ... He’s expected to lose quite a bit of the baby fat that made him a worldwide sensation during this ...

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 ...

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.

The alternative etymology relates the word to Latin Word “Pinguis,” which refers to Fat or Oil. Penguin Awareness Day ... world’s seventeen species – King, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Magellanic ...

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 and ...

Photographer Yves Adams believes the rare king penguin he saw on an island in South Georgia is leucistic Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.