The black and white penguin was an adult male that stood three feet tall. At the time it was discovered, it weighed only 51 pounds. A healthy male emperor penguin usually weighs around 100 pounds.

Emperor penguins are large birds that stand around 4 feet high and weigh up to 100 pounds. They have black feathers on the ...

emperor penguins are the iconic Antarctic species. When I first saw them on the ice, I was struck by their serene grace and intricate beauty. Delicate gold patches adorn their chest like an artist’s ...

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 ...

And the emperor is not alone ... as well as four from New Zealand — the yellow-eyed, white-flippered, Fiordland crested and erect-crested penguins. Soon after, the African penguin was listed as ...

It is possible even from 800km up to spot the animals' excrement, or guano, on the white ice and then to ... warming in Antarctica could have on emperor penguins in particular.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists now routinely use satellite imagery to discover and monitor emperor penguin colonies, as the brown stains of the birds’ guano stands out clearly against the stark white of ice and snow.

And the emperor is not alone ... as well as four from New Zealand — the yellow-eyed, white-flippered, Fiordland crested and erect-crested penguins. Soon after, the African penguin was listed as ...