The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

Here's what's next for this icon. Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ For Antarctica’s emperor ...

A penguin’s cute exterior is equally matched to its friendly disposition. As a species, penguins are rarely aggressive and ...

It is believed that the answer to what an Emperor penguin was doing on the beach in Australia was foraging for food. While it was exciting for those at the Australian beach to see the penguin ...

In this clip from the BBC Select documentary Penguins: Spy in the Huddle, we see an emperor penguin meet his chick for the first time - and we learn about the special relationship between father ...

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 ...

When I grow up I want ... I'm 16 and in the middle of a really vivid dream. An Emperor penguin gets delivered through my letterbox. He feels trapped and out of place, can't adjust to being a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emperor penguins don’t live on U.S. territory, so some of the Endangered Species Act’s measures meant to protect species’ habitats and prevent hunting them don’t directly apply.

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 ...