They are also well-adapted for swimming with their streamlined bodies gliding through the water, propelled by their small, rigid wings. Fossil records indicate that emperor penguins’ earliest ...

After severe weather in 2016 a large penguin colony at the Brunt ice shelf in Antarctica never recovered. The emperor penguins in the Halley Bay colony have either moved away or stopped breeding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...