Evolution Fossil records indicate that emperor penguins’ earliest common ancestor lived as long as 60 million years ago — ...

That’s why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the emperor penguin as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal will be published in the Federal ...

It is believed that the answer to what an Emperor penguin was doing on the beach in Australia was foraging for food. While it was exciting for those at the Australian beach to see the penguin ...

The new peer-reviewed study by Philip Trathan and 17 other penguin researchers recommends that the emperor penguin be elevated to Vulnerable status on the International Union for the Conservation of ...

Some penguin species, however, feel quite strongly about finding new partners. King and emperor penguins are particularly notorious for keeping their options open, exhibiting partner-switching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Existing emperor penguin colonies and their average population sizes from 2009 to 2018. The colonieshighlighted in red represent those with available population size estimates. Colonies marked in ...

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 ...

Determined to keep global warming from finally tipping the odds too heavily against emperor penguins’ survival, the Center petitioned back in 2006 to gain Endangered Species Act protection for this ...