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 ...

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 ...

The African penguin population has plummeted astronomically thanks to overfishing, climate change and other threats ...

This tundra-clad outcrop of permafrost and penguins lies within an extremely isolated island chain in the Southern Ocean. We're seeing just a comparative handful of the more than 100,000 king ...

Two penguins were present with their trainer, who taught the group a few interesting facts and introduced the ... You’ll meet the King penguins between your main course and dessert.

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 ...

Scientists are trying out an alternative bio-indicator – the king penguin – to investigate whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change. We are used to hearing about the ...

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 ...

A wildlife park has welcomed two new females to its colony of king penguins in a bid to boost its breeding programme. The females, who have yet to be named, arrived at Birdland Park and Gardens in ...

as many as a million penguins nest in the Falklands every summer, representing five of the world’s seventeen species – King, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Magellanic and Macaroni. What’s more ...

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 ...