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Pesto the baby penguin is big both online — where his viral fame is growing to Moo Deng levels of excitement — and in stature. The 9-month-old King Penguin's impressive size has attracted many animal lovers to his TikTok and Instagram videos, which appear on the social media accounts for his home aquarium. SEA LIFE Melbourne, in Australia.

Move over Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market and Royal Botanic Gardens — there is a new king in town, and it’s a baby penguin. Baby might not be the best word to describe the oversized chick who has taken the internet by storm.

A sea animal from Australia is capturing the hearts of the Internet: meet Pesto the penguin!

After baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, the internet is losing it over adorable, chocolatey brown, ridiculously fluffy baby penguin, Pesto, born in Melbourne’s Sea Life Aquarium. Dubbed “fatty”, a “linebacker”,

Meet Pesto, a penguin chick from Australia, who has become the newest internet sensation! Admired for his adorable figure and playful behaviors, Pesto, a penguin baby living at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium has recently gone viral online.

Pesto, the 9-month-old towering baby king penguin, weighs an impressive 46 pounds and devours 25 fish every day.

Chonky' Pesto the penguin has captured the hearts of animal lovers around the world - the sweet fluffball, who is now a social media superstar, weighs more than his parents combined

Moo Deng the baby pygmy hippo had her day in the viral TikTok sun and all the memes that came with her. Now? There’s a new viral sensation out there in the animal world, and it’s a big, fluffy penguin named Pesto in Australia,