A new analysis of old data suggests that the endangered erect-crested penguin’s bizarre nesting habits – rejecting the first egg they lay – is because they can’t feed two chicks, and the second, ...

For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating, ...

After a December health check that found the aquarium’s penguins all in good health, six of the birds began displaying mating behaviors in early February. Aquarium staff assisted in pairing them, ...

On the heels of last week’s World Penguin Day, the Detroit Zoo is marking a milestone with the public debut of its newest king penguin chick, Atticus — who weighs a whopping 40 pounds at just 8 months ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A macaroni penguin born at the Pittsburgh Zoo was named Hatty after she achieved a hat trick of survival. The zoo said when Hatty was an egg, she was discarded by her parents.

“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the warmer ...

Meet Ember and Echo. Born just three days apart in February 2025, they were the first African penguin chicks to hatch at the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A tiny Humboldt penguin chick came out of its shell recently at the Oregon Zoo. “The little beak came out first,” said Marcus Jason, who oversees the zoo’s penguin habitat.