Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom.

Sphen and Magic were a boundary-breaking same-sex couple, raising two offspring, helping increase awareness about rainbow families and inspiring a float at Sydney’s famed Mardi Gras Pride parade.

Dynamic duo Scampi and Flounder (we told you, great names abound in this colony) were signed up for fatherhood after another ...

Sphen, an Australian gentoo penguin who became an unlikely global symbol for equality, has died from apparent natural causes at age 11.

When Magic saw Sphen's body, "he immediately started singing," and other penguins joined in, Renee Howell, the aquarium's penguin keeper, told Australia's ABC broadcaster.

Sphen, an Australian gentoo penguin who became an unlikely global symbol for equality, has died from apparent natural causes at age 11.