This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

You can check out the video below to learn more about this big, fluffy, Penguin baby. Weighing in at 35.42 pounds, Atticus is already bigger than both his mother and father. The King Penguin chick ...

Supremely dry and subtle, Steve Coogan saves this real-life story, about an adopted penguin and an academic rescued from his ...

The penguins live on Ile aux Cochons (Pig Island), which lies in the southern Indian Ocean between Africa and Antartica. The decline “is completely unexpected, and particularly significant since this ...

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin ...

This is called melanism and is a widely known mutation in the animal kingdom. Complete melanism like this has been seen before in their close relatives, king penguins, but it is extremely rare in ...

Atticus, “the fluffiest, spunkiest, and most vocal" king penguin at the Detroit Zoo, is on a mission to win March of the Penguin Madness, and he needs your help.

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 ...

A new way of using animals as bio-indicators is to ascertain their energy requirements. Dr Halsey and co-workers measured the heart rate and energy expenditure of king penguins whilst walking on a ...