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

emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their onshore waddle doesn't exactly exude ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild ... they analyzed hours of underwater footage and discovered that the penguins were doing something that engineers had long tried to ...

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 ...

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

The National Geographic documentary Endurance concerns two expeditions 107 years apart, to the same less-than-welcoming strip ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Australian research using satellite imagery to monitor the location of emperor penguin colonies in East ... The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in ...

Emperor penguins don’t live on U.S. territory, so some of the Endangered Species Act’s measures meant to protect species’ habitats and prevent hunting them don’t directly apply.