For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating ...

Where all other penguin species lay two eggs, the emperor penguin female lays only one, measuring 11.1 to 12.7 cm long and weighing 345 to 515g - that’s about the weight of 13 Cadbury’s Crème Eggs!

Birds lay eggs of surprising variety, and scientists have long wondered why. Could it be that certain shapes protect eggs from shattering? Or perhaps allow them to fit snugly in a nest? Or was ...

Scores of baby penguins bravely dove off a massive 50-foot cliff for their first-ever swim in the Antarctic below, new footage shows.

Zookeepers puzzled by the lack of a female penguin's breeding success have discovered it is in fact a male. King penguin Maggie, 10, has since been renamed Magnus by Birdland Park and Gardens ...

A female king penguin in Britain’s only breeding ... They start breeding from the age of five and Birdland has had females lay eggs until their mid-thirties. The species’ life expectancy ...

After the female lays her eggs, the male fertilizes them and flattens ... that those reared only by the mother. The male emperor penguin is entirely responsible for incubating his mate's precious ...