Determined to keep global warming from finally tipping the odds too heavily against emperor penguins’ survival, the Center petitioned back in 2006 to gain Endangered Species Act protection for this ...

Evolution Fossil records indicate that emperor penguins’ earliest common ancestor lived as long as 60 million years ago — soon after the dinosaur extinction. Later penguin ancestors are ...

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 ...

It is believed that the answer to what an Emperor penguin was doing on the beach in Australia was foraging for food. While it was exciting for those at the Australian beach to see the penguin ...

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 ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...

Like the polar bear on the opposite pole, the emperor penguin endures almost unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter ...

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 ...

Conclusions from the new study "Living with Uncertainty: Using Multi-Model Large Ensembles to Assess Emperor Penguin Extinction Risk for Conservation Policy," published in the journal Biological ...