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

"How come they have wings but can't fly?" Susan is fascinated by penguins. Even though she has been on countless journeys throughout the world, there is one parade that is still vivid in her mind.

The emperor penguin is the heaviest and largest of the ... They have flippers rather than wings (although they are considered birds), which they use to move through water quickly.

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...

They must fledge before the ice breaks up A catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the Antarctic, with up to 10,000 young birds estimated to have been killed.

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 ...