From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to adapt to one of the world’s most extreme environments.

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

In July 1911, it took Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers 19 days to travel from Cape Evans to the emperor ...

Emperor penguins are dependent on stable sea ice ... well before chicks would have developed waterproof feathers. The five colonies of penguins studied were all discovered in the last 14 years ...

They don’t have the aristocratic bearing and the polar mystique of the emperor penguin ... most beautiful of all penguins. Nor do they have the shining yellow head feathers of the crested ...

An emperor penguin close-up on a cloudy day. Image by [email protected] via Depositphotos Penguins have tightly packed, waterproof feathers that provide insulation and buoyancy. These feathers are ...

If the emperor penguin was the most primitive bird species ... in the egg might reveal tiny reptilian scales developing into feathers, supporting both theories at once. To Wilson, then, this ...