emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their onshore waddle doesn't exactly exude ...

While they warm in groups, they hunt alone but have the swimming capabilities to catch prey underwater quickly and efficiently. Even though they live in large colonies, emperor penguins are the ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild ... they analyzed hours of underwater footage and discovered that the penguins were doing something that engineers had long tried to ...

The colossus penguin was probably a good hunter; Because larger penguins are known to be able to hold their breath longer, ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shooting Stars Capturing the flight of emperor penguins in Antarctica is no easy feat. They rocket around underwater ...

A rover quietly surveys the forbidding icy landscape. Suddenly, it whirrs into life: it has spotted an emperor penguin. With its antenna set to scan, the 90-centimetre-long robot trundles towards ...

The Emperor Penguin lives in the Antarctic environment ... slow down greatly during a dive so that it can conserve oxygen underwater and spend more time finding food. Penguins have a short stiff ...

Slow, graceful floating and bobbing in the sea (in groups) leads to streamlined curving and twisting, for underwater swimming like seals. By contrast, ‘Emperor Penguins’ need straight backs ...