Nearly 700 emperor penguin chicks were filmed taking their first plunge into frigid waters from a daunting 50-foot ice cliff.

Finally a hand grabs mine and hauls me into the air. Today’s dive is over—but it’s only one of 32. Emperor penguins head for the open ocean in search of food. The brownish patches above them ...

It's not unusual for emperor penguin chicks to march toward the ocean ... The rest of the chicks take the successful dive as ...

Barbara Wienecke, a seabird researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division, explained that emperor penguins have ...

New Australian research using satellite imagery to monitor the location of emperor penguin colonies in East Antarctica, shows ...

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 ...

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather. The catastrophe occurred in 2016 in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

The Emperor Penguin lives in the Antarctic environment ... A penguin’s resting heart rate can slow down greatly during a dive so that it can conserve oxygen underwater and spend more time ...

Guano stains: A new colony on fast ice that has formed around grounded icebergs Satellite observations have found a raft of new Emperor penguin breeding sites in the Antarctic. The locations were ...