Results tagged “indianapoliszoo”

Here's a feel-good story to send you off to lunch: A pair of penguins that survived a truck crash in East Texas in August have now hatched a penguin chick at Moody Gardens. All together now: Aaaaawwwwwwww! The baby penguin was born Nov. 12 and is the first of eight chicks expected to hatch in the coming weeks from the penguins that were involved in the crash en route to Galveston from the Indianapolis Zoo....

Police surrounded a house in the Heights this afternoon after a woman said her boyfriend shot her but it turns out she made a false report because she was mad at the guy A Fort Bend County judge has set Sean Brown's bail at $1 million; the teen is one of two accused of killing Ashton Glover Police are still looking for 13-year-old Marlena Carmen Esquivel, who was last seen early yesterday and is in...

More on the penguins injured Tuesday when the truck carrying them to Galveston overturned on an East Texas highway: According to reports, the 21 penguins that survived the crash are a little the worse for wear, but are generally doing very well. One of the birds suffered a broken wing and three others had sutures to close lacerations; as for the rest, they're resting up from the trip and are expected to be just fine....

And now for something completely different: A truck full of penguins, tropical fish, birds and an octopus overturned on an East Texas highway Tuesday morning, killing a few of the penguins and some of the fish. The truck was on its way to Moody Gardens in Galveston from the Indianapolis Zoo loaded with 25 penguins, the fish and the birds, all of which Moody Gardens had agreed to keep while part of the Indy Zoo...