King penguins do not build nests. In their constricted space, the male and female take turns incubating a single egg balanced on their feet and covered by a loose fold of skin. They brood the ...

A female king penguin in Britain’s only breeding colony for the species is actually a male, keepers have discovered after eight years. The true sex of Maggie, now known as Magnus, was uncovered ...

An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white ...

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 ...

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 ...