Members of the Pinamar Ecological Foundation made a surprising discovery on a beach south of Buenos Aires last August.

But whereas most birds have rows of feathers with bare skin between them, emperor penguins have a dense, uniform coat of feathers. And because the bases of their feathers include tiny filaments ...

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Emperor penguins have the deepest and longest dives for any bird ... To preserve heat, they have a dense double layer of feathers – about 70 feathers per square inch – large fat reserves and, ...

The team writes in Science journal that the penguin's feathers were brown and grey, distinct from the black “tuxedo” look of modern penguins. It was nearly twice the size of an Emperor Penguin ...

The scientists examined satellite images that showed the loss of sea ice at breeding sites, well before chicks would have developed waterproof feathers. Emperor penguins are dependent on stable ...

Emperor penguins allow their outer feathers to cool down below air temperature in order to minimise heat loss. The research, published in Biology Letters today, represents the first time extreme ...

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, as ...

Penguin feathers from the Antarctic Peninsula reveal mercury contamination, despite no local human sources. Mercury, a neurotoxin, bioaccumulates in food chains, affecting fish-eating animals.

Emperor penguin chicks are born “into the darkness of Antarctica’s long winter”, said Scientific American, and then grow feathers in December – which is midsummer in the Antarctic – to ...