Like other penguin species, emperor penguins are equipped with a spiky tongue for help when eating slippery fish. Chicks rely on their parents to collect food for them. Males and females feed the ...

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 ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land-fast sea ice – stable sea ice that is attached firmly to the shore. If this ice breaks up too early, the chicks go into the sea before they ...

According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.

Emperor penguins need reliable sea ice for breeding and raising their chicks. As sea ice disappears or breaks up earlier in the year, entire emperor penguin colonies are declining or vanishing in ...

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”. “Abrupt reductions” in sea ice that persisted ...

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall ... they have a dense double layer of feathers – about 70 feathers per square inch – large fat reserves and, proportionally ...

(Why are these emperor penguin chicks jumping from a 50-foot cliff?) “Secrets of the Penguins” premieres April 20 on National Geographic and streams the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

satellite imagery with field-based validation surveys and long-term data has provided the first multi-year time series that documents emperor penguin global population trends.