Determined to keep global warming from finally tipping the odds too heavily against emperor penguins’ survival, the Center petitioned back in 2006 to gain Endangered Species Act protection for this ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

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 ...

For around 175 years, no one knew the story of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) specimen, on display in Gallery One at the Natural History Museum in Tring. It was collected by British ...

Talk about extreme parenting. While his mate hunts, a male emperor penguin stands on the Antarctic ice with their egg tucked warmly on his feet. In minus 40°F temperatures. For four months.

Mr Fowler was at the beach with a friend and their children when he spotted the emperor penguin. 'There is always a bit of wildlife in the water but never a penguin,' he said. '[The kids] were ...