Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships ... These extraordinary birds, the largest of all penguins, face extraordinary pressures. Most ominously, the ...

Nothing gets in the way of a baby emperor penguin getting into the water, not even a huge ice cliff. The courage some chicks have in the face of adversity is truly unmatched, serving them well as ...

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

On Earth Day, the Secrets of the Penguins will be revealed.

The greatest threat emperor penguins face is climate change. It will disrupt the sea ice cover they rely on unless governments adopt policies that reduce the greenhouse gases driving global warming.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

Emperor penguins establish their colonies on sea ice under extremely specific conditions. Yet, this ice will gradually melt as the climate warms, depriving these birds of their habitat ...

For around 175 years, no one knew the story of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) specimen, on display in Gallery One at the Natural History Museum in Tring. It was collected by British ...

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 ...

Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships ... These extraordinary birds, the largest of all penguins, face extraordinary pressures. Most ominously, the ...