Watch emperor penguin families. Elephants aren’t just family—they’re friends. And friends help each other. One herd tried to hold up an elephant after she became woozy from a researcher’s ...

DENMARK, Western Australia – A family's beach day took an unexpected turn after an extraordinary encounter when they stumbled upon a creature far from its icy Antarctic home: an emperor 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 ...

In 2014, BBC recorded a mother emperor penguin visibly grieving the loss ... Penguins mourn colony members like humans mourn a friend or family member. According to Audubon, some penguins can also be ...

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 ...

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 ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has documented the existence of 61 Emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica, increasing the known number of colonies in the region by 20 percent. The findings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2014, BBC recorded a mother emperor penguin visibly grieving ... members like humans mourn a friend or family member. According to Audubon, some penguins can also be confused by loss.