Penguins can survive some of Earth's most extreme conditions. The largest of the penguins, the emperor, can survive temperatures lower than -70°C, dive to depths of 550m and hold its breath for ...

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 BBC Earth film crew for the 'Dynasties' series intervened in the lives of a few penguins to save them from a ravine and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The emperor penguin trying to warm her baby and vocalizing ... However, knowing the facts behind a penguin’s connection with others is important to avoid anthropomorphization.

According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted the emperor penguin protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from sea-ice loss driven by the climate crisis. The ...

In celebration, here are five fabulous facts about these utterly adorable ... The name of the group depends on what they are doing, too. Emperor penguins that march in the thousands in a single ...

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 ...