Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with international partners, have developed a ...

An emperor penguin has been found far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast, marking the first recorded sighting of the species in the country. The adult male penguin, now ...

Certain birds such as Anhinga and Great Crested Grebe have excellent diving skills that showcase their precision in hunting ...

Emperor penguins are dependent on stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore from April through to January. If the ice fractures before early December, the young fall into the water and ...

The furthest-recorded dive by an emperor penguin was 1,854 feet off eastern Antarctica on July 19, 2006. The species also ...

They are also well-adapted for swimming with their streamlined bodies gliding through the water, propelled by their small, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...