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 ...

Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom. The chick is one of 10 born during what zoo team manager Zoe Sweetman ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — John Ball Zoo has a champion. Philbert the penguin won the March of the Penguin Madness tournament hosted by Penguins International, the zoo in Grand Rapids announced in a ...

Originally, sea lions were on the docket, but the Zoo opted for penguins due to cost of the Sea to Shore exhibit.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Six Magellanic penguin chicks that hatched in May finally graduated from "fish school" on Saturday. In the San Francisco Zoo's annual ritual, March of the Penguins, the animals ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- One of the oldest penguins living in captivity has died at the San Francisco Zoo, officials said on Wednesday. Magellanic penguin, Captain EO, was thought to be about 40 years old. He ...

In our Meet Milwaukee's Animals series, we speak to an animal caretaker each month to share the stats and stories that make some of our favorite animals so fascinating. Roo's earliest days of life at ...

Elmer and Lima have adopted a one-month-old chick as their own. Two Humboldt penguins in upstate New York are now the proud parents of a fluffy penguin chick. Elmer and Lima, both male, are the first ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — A tiny, fluffy African penguin chick hatched at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! It was born on April 8, and the zoo says the little one is growing up big and strong. The ...

BRONX -- The colony of little penguins that debuted in 2015 as a new species at Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo has successfully produced a chick that is now on exhibit with the rest of the ...