Emperor penguins are large birds that stand around 4 feet high and weigh up to 100 pounds. They have black feathers on the back, white feathers on the front, a yellow patch on the neck and an ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with international partners, have developed a ...

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year.

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 ...

An emperor penguin's sex determines the nature of their ... but they contained little initial amplitude peaks in front of many bursts and a series of very short peaks in one of the long central ...

For around 175 years, no one knew the story of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) specimen, on display in Gallery One at the Natural History Museum in Tring. It was collected by British ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear.

In this clip from the BBC Select documentary Penguins: Spy in the Huddle, we see an emperor penguin meet his chick for the first time - and we learn about the special relationship between father ...

Emperor penguins, like many birds, don’t show any individual diagnostic characteristics as adults, unless there is a scar or abnormality. So to identify an individual, or even a male from a ...

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 ...

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 ...