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 ...

The A83 iceberg broke away in May and blocked access to the penguin colony In August, when we asked the British Antarctic ...

Watch emperor penguin families. Elephants aren’t just ... digging and maintaining the territory’s "bolt holes," where meerkats dive and hide from danger. Then there are babysitters, watching ...

Existing emperor penguin colonies and their average population sizes from 2009 to 2018. The colonieshighlighted in red represent those with available population size estimates. Colonies marked in ...

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 ...

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 ...