Emperor penguins are a vital part of the Antarctic food chain – they eat creatures like squid and small fish, and are an important source of food for predators like leopard seals and large sharks. By ...

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 ...

For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ As ice melts, emperor penguins march toward extinction As ice ...

These evolutions allowed the penguin to dive to lower depths in search of food, (the modern emperor penguin can hold its breath for up to 20 minutes to ... Still, left to their own devices, they ...

The emperor penguin is a member of the penguin family Spheniscidae. It is the largest member of the penguin family, and one ...

Emperor penguins don’t live on U.S. territory, so some of the Endangered Species Act’s measures meant to protect species’ habitats and prevent hunting them don’t directly apply.

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 ...

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 ...

Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of ...