You’ve watched them shuffle across icebergs and marveled at their underwater acrobatics, and now you'll want to share these ...

In 1997, a strong El Nino warmed the ocean that surrounds the penguins' home, pushing the various animals that the king penguins eat further away than they swim for food.

Following the 1997 El Niño – the strongest on record – the king penguin breeding population fell by 34 per cent. This doesn’t bode well for the penguins next year, as we are in the midst of ...

King penguins live on islands scattered throughout the Southern Ocean, the waters surrounding Antarctica. The birds can swim as far as 310 miles (500 kilometers) to feed on lanternfish, squids ...

King penguins are in fact picky animals: ... Parents are then forced to swim farther to find food, while their progeny is waiting, fasting longer and longer on the shore.

Tracking tags have shown that several species of marine animals, including king penguins, green sea turtles and tiger sharks, sometimes repeatedly swim in circles, but it's unclear why ...

There aren't many islands around, so King Penguins can't just easily swim off to another home. SEE ALSO: Gas-filled vessel barrels solo through pathetic Arctic sea ice during dead of winter.

A: The first penguin was a Gálapagos penguin in the Galápagos Islands [in 2003]. The coolest part was getting to swim with them. That got me interested in penguins, but the encounter that hooked ...

King penguins typically forage for food in an area of the Southern Ocean known as the Antarctic polar front, a region where the colder water in the south meets the warmer water to the north and ...

Growing these new feathers will allow Pesto to eventually swim. While king penguin chicks' brown feathers are insulating, they are not waterproof, which is where their adult plumage comes in handy.