The emperor penguin, the largest of all penguins, could face extinction by the end of the 21st century. Research published in "Biological Conservation" suggests a 90 percent population decline by 2100 ...

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.

Existing emperor penguin colonies and their average population sizes from 2009 to 2018. The colonieshighlighted in red represent those with available population size estimates. Colonies marked in ...

Like the polar bear on the opposite pole, the emperor penguin endures almost unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shooting Stars Capturing the flight of emperor penguins in Antarctica is no easy feat. They rocket around underwater ...

To assess whether the emperor penguin could qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encouraged an international team of scientists, policy ...

Are Penguins Capable of Mourning? Unfortunately, penguins understand grief all too well. In 2014, BBC recorded a mother emperor penguin visibly grieving the loss of her chick. In the video, the ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted the emperor penguin protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from sea-ice loss driven by the climate crisis. The ...

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 ...

According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.