Zookeepers at Sewerby Hall are celebrating the arrival of a new penguin chick. The eight-week old chick was born on Easter Monday, but it is still too early to tell whether they are male or female.

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land-fast sea ice – stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore. If this ice breaks up too early, the chicks go into the sea before they ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land-fast sea ice - stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore. If this ice breaks up too early, the chicks go into the sea before they ...

Hundreds of baby emperor penguins have miraculously survived after a breakaway iceberg caused thousands of chicks to be cut ...

Katy Duke, chief executive officer at The Deep, said: "It is a very proud moment to see a successful gentoo penguin chick hatch as they can unfortunately fail for a number of reasons. "Gentoo ...

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

A large number of emperor penguin chicks were hit by the effects of climate change in 2023 as their icy homes were eroded despite the species’ endeavours to adjust to the shrinking landscape, as ...

NOW, HUMBOLDT PENGUINS TYPICALLY HATCH BETWEEN 43 AND 48 DAYS AFTER THE EGG IS LAID. THIS IS THE PARENTS SECOND CHICK. SO CUTE. THEIR SON, PERCY WAS BORN BACK IN APRIL. THEIR NEW CHICK WILL ...