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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...