Baby animals have always taken the internet by storm — but this time, it’s a massive king penguin chick. Pesto is a 50-pound, nearly three-foot-tall baby penguin who hails from the land down under.

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — SeaWorld San Diego has several new baby animals you can visit at the park and they are sharing them with you. This year, the park has seen the birth of baby bamboo sharks, ...

There’s a big baby taking the internet by storm, and he’s of the avian variety. Meet Pesto, the nine-month-old king penguin chick stealing hearts and bumping up attendance at the Sea Life Aquarium in ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Aquarium of Niagara welcomed a new baby chick to their penguin family last month after a 40-day incubation period. The baby chick weighed 87 grams at its first weigh-in. A ...

After reaching stardom in September, the king penguin chick is beginning to shed his brown feathers in exchange for new waterproof ones as he transitions into adulthood. Pesto, who lives at the Sea ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a beach or a panda somersaulting, actually lights up the same brain areas as ...

Baby Pesto is a nine-month-old king penguin who has taken the internet by storm by being huge and already grown taller than his parents. He’s bigger, in fact, than most of the other penguins in the ...

It was just a few months ago that Australia's beloved Pesto the Penguin went viral for weighing nearly 50 pounds at just 9 months old. Now, the U.S. has its own baby penguin that some are saying is ...

What’s red, white, black and cute all over? Eight new baby animals at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Specifically, six red wolf pups and two Humboldt penguin chicks. Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon ...