Belinda Cannell, a research fellow at the University of Western Australia, explained that emperor penguins have previously ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild ... But he didn’t know what the bubbles did for the penguins. It turns out no one else knew either. The two men combed the scientific ...

Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their ...

No other species is so perfectly adapted to survive in the most extreme and remote place on earth. They inspire me. Of the 18 different species of penguin, only two (the emperor and Adélie) are ...

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with international partners, have developed a ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shooting Stars Capturing the flight of emperor penguins in Antarctica is no easy feat. They rocket around underwater ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from the British Antarctic ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin ... adult birds showing no sign of trying to ...

A large number of emperor penguin chicks were hit by the effects of climate change in 2023 as their icy homes were eroded despite the species’ endeavours to adjust to the shrinking landscape ...