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 ...

Like other penguin species, emperor penguins are equipped with a spiky tongue for help when eating slippery fish. Chicks rely on their parents to collect food for them. Males and females feed the ...

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 ...

Penguins build their nests in sea ice and depend on this substrate to last beyond December for a successful breeding season. Emperor penguins are dependent on stable sea ice that is firmly ...

Climate scientists “expected” to see these penguins “suffer” as sea ice receded, but this loss “has accumulated faster than predicted”. What happened to the colonies in 2022?

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 ...

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, as ...