Emperor penguins are a vital part of the Antarctic food chain – they eat creatures like squid and small fish, and are an important source of food for predators like leopard seals and large sharks. By ...

Instead of breeding in the warmer summer months like other penguin species, emperor penguins lay and ... leaving the males to ...

Take a look at these cute baby penguin chicks Andy's finds on his mission. Andy, Jen and Scout head to Antarctica on a global adventure in search of emperor penguins. BBC Homepage ...

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 ...

German photographer and film-maker Stefan Christmann spent two winters alongside a 10,000-strong colony of emperor ... (like leopard seals and orcas). Stefan Christmann "Even when the penguins ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins ... speed helps the penguins avoid predators such as leopard seals.) The key to this talent is in the penguin’s feathers. Like other birds, emperors ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach, officials ...

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 ...

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 ...