From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

Imagine a world where the coldest places on Earth are alive with bustling activity, clever survival tricks, and nature’s most ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

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, ...

Unlike other birds, penguins lose all their feathers at once. This “catastrophic molt” leaves them grounded—and fasting—for ...

An injured king penguin found on a beach in Argentina has been released back into the wild. The Mundo Marino Foundation ...

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 ...

Emperor penguins require stable, ‘fast’ ice (sea ice which is connected to the land) for about nine months of the year as a platform to mate, incubate their eggs, raise their chicks, and replace their ...

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 ...