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 ...

Pesto, a king penguin of unusually large size, has waddled his way into social media feeds all over the world, forcing pygmy hippo Moo Deng to share the celebrity baby animal spotlight. In the process ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baby Pesto is a nine-month-old king penguin who has taken the internet by storm by being huge and already grown taller than his parents. He’s bigger, in fact, than most of the other penguins in the ...

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.

Cleopatra the king penguin is turning heads at just six weeks old, already tipping the scales at more than 14 pounds. Keepers say she is likely to double her weight as she grows. She has now started ...

Members of the Pinamar Ecological Foundation made a surprising discovery on a beach south of Buenos Aires last August. Standing in the sand was an injured king penguin, the species closest to emperor ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A penguin at the Kansas ...

This boot is made for waddlin’ — and that’s just what Will the Central Park Zoo king penguin will do. The 15-year-old penguin recently hurt his foot, and the injury caused him discomfort when he ...

TACOMA, Wash — Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo (PDZ) shared some sad news on Monday, announcing that one of its penguin chicks died after a number of health complications. Periwinkle was six months old, ...