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

Emperor penguins are the largest penguin species in existence. This specimen was kept by Hooker for his own collection, and mounted by noted London taxidermist John Leadbeater at his Piccadilly shop.

These extraordinary birds, the largest of all penguins ... Determined to keep global warming from finally tipping the odds too heavily against emperor penguins’ survival, the Center petitioned back in ...

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 ...

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”. “Abrupt reductions” in sea ice that persisted ...

A dramatic example is the recent collapse of Halley Bay, the second-largest emperor penguin colony in Antarctica. More than 10,000 chicks died in 2016 when sea ice broke up early. The colony has ...

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