Melbourne’s 50-pound celebrity chick is molting, revealing adult feathers beneath his iconic brown fluff. Here’s what to expect as he waddles into adulthood.

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 ...

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.

While king penguin chicks have fluffy, brown down feathers for the first 10 months of their lives, in adulthood they become white and black, with bright mustard-colored patches around their heads ...

He ‘looks like he is wearing a brown feather boa over a white tuxedo shirt.' ...

King penguins breed on more temperate islands north of Antarctica The world's largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90% since the 1980s, research suggests. Aerial and satellite images show ...

“As Pesto sheds his juvenile feathers and develops his sleek, waterproof adult plumage, he’s beginning to look more like an ...