emperor penguins are equipped with a spiky tongue for help when eating slippery fish. Chicks rely on their parents to collect ...

However, it is troubling that Emperor penguins have to travel as far as they do to feed themselves and their chicks with their ice sheets melting at rapid rates, not seen at any other time in ...

Father penguins often have to distinguish their child from countless identical chicks in the colony. They have developed a unique call to draw them from the rest and feed them. Watch the full BBC ...

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 ...

As the new study highlights, emperor penguins need reliable sea ice for breeding and raising their chicks. In parts of Antarctica where sea ice is disappearing or breaking up early, their populations ...

Unlike other birds, male emperor penguins do not sit on their ... reserves to see him through. If their chick hatches before Mom returns, Dad will feed the baby penguin. But once Mom’s back ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land-fast sea ice – stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore. If this ice breaks up too early, the chicks go into the sea before they ...

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”. “Abrupt reductions” in sea ice that persisted ...

the emperor penguin endures almost unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter weather, sustained only by stored energy ...

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 ...