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

In Secrets of the Penguins, hundreds of emperor penguin chicks leap from a 50-foot cliff into the icy ocean below –emerging ...

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 ...

Meet the Family Wednesday, April 23 at 8 p.m. on PBS A unique celebration of one of Earth’s most iconic and beloved birds, ...

like emperor penguin chicks coming of age, and their parents abandoning them." The middle of the episode, which shows adult emperor penguins finding their mates and caring for their eggs until ...

The series presents a number of never-before-seen moments, including one teased in a viral clip of emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks hurling themselves from a 50-foot (15 meters ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...