Maybe the smug penguin couldn't be bothered to evolve any further once it had stuck a feather on its head and called it macaroni.Related content: Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Kinky quails fertilize more eggs ...

Every year, the female macaroni penguin lays two eggs. Peculiarly, the first is smaller than the second. Stranger still is that she kicks the first egg out of the nest before it hatches.

Even after the egg hatches as the chick is born, the job of a macaroni penguin parent is not done. Male macaroni penguins care for their newly hatched chicks by themselves for the first several weeks.

Macaroni penguins lay two eggs and usually smash or discard the first one. This year, zoo staff pulled the first egg and gave it to gentoo penguin pair Mambo and Cookie, who did a "fantastic job ...

ROYAL OAK - The Detroit Zoo celebrated the birth of a macaroni penguin chick on May 25 – and celebrated its rebirth the next day. Using a rare and little-known technique previously employed with ...

Warm welcomes are in order for the six Macaroni penguin eggs recently transported from SeaWorld San Diego, as well as two native Macaroni chicks that hatched over the weekend. “They received ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eight fluffy macaroni penguin chicks have been born at the Kansas City Zoo. Their eggs were flown in from SeaWorld San Diego and hatched in incubators in Kansas City, the ...

WATCH AND LEARN: Penguins at Tennessee Aquarium tend to first egg of 2020 nesting season. April 28, 2020 at 5:09 p.m. | Updated April 28, 2020 at 5:24 p.m.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A macaroni penguin born at the Pittsburgh Zoo was named Hatty after she achieved a hat trick of survival. The zoo said when Hatty was an egg, she was discarded by her parents ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A macaroni penguin born at the Pittsburgh Zoo was named Hatty after she achieved a hat trick of survival. The zoo said when Hatty was an egg, she was discarded by her parents ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A macaroni penguin born at the Pittsburgh Zoo was named Hatty after she achieved a hat trick of survival. The zoo said when Hatty was an egg, she was discarded by her parents ...