Befitting their name, king penguins cut an impressive figure in the seabird court. As tall as three feet and weighing an average of 30 pounds, they are the second largest penguin, after the emperor.

Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just nine months old and ... Photos of Pesto – who is 90 centimeters (about three feet) tall ...

His efforts were rewarded when he found a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) like no other he’d seen before, one with black feathers all over its body. “Melanism is something that occurs ...

They are infamously the “principal enemy of the penguin”, as immortalized in the film Happy Feet. But when they eat ... one another dining together on a king penguin carcass, taking it in ...

King penguins are the second-largest penguin species after the Emperor. They do not make a nest, but rather lay one egg at a time and carry it around on their feet covered with a flap of abdominal ...