These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

Once thought to mate for life, more penguins seem to be setting out in search of new partners come breeding season. Here’s ...

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

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 ...

An Emperor penguin was found walking around a beach in ... it is going to be more common the warmer the Earth becomes and the less ice real estate the penguins have to call home and hunt from ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We won’t let emperor penguins be another casualty of the extinction crisis,” said Sarah Uhlemann, international program director at the Center. “The Trump administration wants to pretend the climate ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...