The emperor penguin is the heaviest and largest of the penguin species and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’s Red List as near threatened.

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 ...

Evolution Fossil records indicate that emperor penguins’ earliest common ancestor lived as long as 60 million years ago — ...

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

Once thought to mate for life, more penguins seem to be setting out in search of new partners come breeding season. Here’s ...

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 ...

Penguins can survive some of Earth's most extreme conditions. The largest of the penguins, the emperor, can survive temperatures lower than -70°C, dive to depths of 550m and hold its breath for ...

particularly Emperor Penguin populations, are declining and research shows that the world's second-largest Emperor penguin colony has declined by 88%. Penguin Awareness Day gives people the ...