Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...

From “March of the Penguins” to “Happy Feet,” penguins have been a symbol of love through their devotion to their young and their life-long partnerships. Emperor penguin parents battle the extreme ...

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 ...

A rover quietly surveys the forbidding icy landscape. Suddenly, it whirrs into life: it has spotted an emperor penguin. With its antenna set to scan, the 90-centimetre-long robot trundles towards ...

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 ...

Emperor penguin parents battle the extreme polar south to protect their fluffy babies, and gentoo penguins scour the beach until they find the perfect stone to give to their mate. Now, a group of ...