As the planet heats up and sea ice disappears more rapidly, these penguins find it challenging to huddle, mate and breed.

Instead of breeding in the warmer summer months like other penguin species, emperor penguins lay and ... leaving the males to ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins ... speed helps the penguins avoid predators such as leopard seals.) The key to this talent is in the penguin’s feathers. Like other birds, emperors ...

and are an important source of food for predators like leopard seals and large sharks. By protecting emperor penguins we’re helping look after their ocean environment, which is good for all the ...

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 ...

In this clip from the BBC Select documentary Penguins: Spy in the Huddle, we see an emperor penguin meet his ... near the end of their lifespan, Japan looks at innovative solutions to recycle ...

But emperor penguins need a certain amount of sea ice ... and decreases amounts of food sources such as krill, the tiny shrimp-like creatures that sustain penguins. Biologist Hal Caswell from Woods ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has documented the existence of 61 Emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica, increasing the known number of colonies in the region by 20 percent. The findings, ...

Emperor penguins, like many birds, don’t show any individual diagnostic characteristics as adults, unless there is a scar or abnormality. So to identify an individual, or even a male from a ...

“Emperor penguins, like many species on Earth, face a very uncertain future, which is dependent on people working together to reduce carbon pollution. We should draw inspiration from the penguins ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from the British Antarctic ...

Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their ...