The penguin poop didn’t only influence krill movements. In another phase of the experiment, researchers noticed the ...

This coincides with the return of the females, who feed the young and keep them warm using their brood pouch on their tummies ...

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 ...

emperor penguins as a whole are struggling to survive as warming temperatures threaten the sea ice they depend on for breeding and feeding. The disruption of their habitat isn't just a crisis for ...

But emperor penguins need a certain amount of sea ice to survive. Too much sea ice increases the distances parents must travel to feed their chicks. Too little ice, however, reduces places to hide ...

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 ...

More than 5,000 male emperor penguins huddle on the sea ice ... While the females spend two months at sea feeding, their mates care for the eggs. The male balances his precious cargo on his feet, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...