The emperor penguin was malnourished ... coastal town of Denmark were caught by surprise when the one-meter (3.3-foot) ...

An Emperor penguin was tired, hungry, and underweight after swimming 2,100 miles to Australia from Antarctica.

Breeding colonies of emperor penguins are found around the coast of the entire Antarctic continent. Emperor penguins may be the only bird never to set foot on land as their colonies are on the sea ice ...

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 ...

The four foot-tall emperor penguin, which has a damaged beak, was going to be scrapped from a display at the Winter Wonderland in London's Hyde Park but their son Ralph rescued it in 2019 and gave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...