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

The emperor penguin trying to warm her baby and vocalizing to wake ... The penguins in this photo used their flippers to comfort one another. In the BBC video, a penguin tucks another’s head under its ...

Emperor penguins have the deepest and longest dives for any bird ... proportionally, smaller beaks and flippers compared to other penguins. This all helps prevent heat loss. They also work together to ...

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 team headed by Hiroto Tanaka, an associate professor of fluid mechanics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, used a host of camera angles to film penguins swimming and analyze their flipper ...

Their Wings are evolved into flippers, and they live in water ... Of the known species of penguins, the largest are the emperor penguins, which live mostly in Antarctica colonies.

Emperor penguins have two layers of feathers, a good reserve of fat and smaller beaks and flippers. All this helps them keep warm. Orcas (sometimes called killer whales) can often be found ...

The emperor penguin trying to warm her baby and vocalizing to wake it up could be an example of this. The penguins in this photo used their flippers to comfort one another. In the BBC video ...