Usually traveling at speeds up to 6.2 mph but capable of swimming nearly 15 mph, emperor penguins can travel as far as 621 ...

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

Here's what's next for this icon. Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ For Antarctica’s emperor ...

Emperor penguins, known as the heaviest and tallest of all penguins, in wild nature can only be found in Antarctica where they are used to dealing with an incredibly harsh environment, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conservation biologists report the species’ population is currently stable. But emperor penguins need a certain amount of sea ice to survive. Too much sea ice increases the distances parents must ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

With recent government announcements factored in, the increase is estimated to be around 2.4 C (4.3 F). So it appears that the emperor penguin is the proverbial “canary in the coal mine.” ...

Emperor penguin chicks are born “into the darkness ... Images taken by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite late last year “looked very wrong”. There had been penguins in ...

In this clip from the BBC Select documentary Penguins: Spy in the Huddle, we see an emperor penguin meet his chick for the first time - and we learn about the special relationship between father ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land ... uses satellite data from the Copernicus Programme’s Sentinel-2, and reveals the extent of the impact of early sea ice breakup on the ...