King penguin chicks experience their first molt around 10 months old and the process can last up to six weeks, per the aquarium. Since molting requires baby chicks to use a lot of energy ...

Pesto resides at the Australian aquarium.Pesto, the largest chick the aquarium has ever welcomed, will continue to lose his ...

Pesto, the avian answer to the viral hippo Moo Deng, has started to molt. The chick, who lives at Australia’s SEA Life Melbourne Aquarium, has started to fledge. In a kind of bird puberty, Pesto is ...

King penguin chicks experience their first molt around 10 months old and the process can last up to six weeks, per the aquarium. Since molting requires baby chicks to use a lot of energy ...

Growing these new feathers will allow Pesto to eventually swim. While king penguin chicks' brown feathers ... his big ...