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 ...

Penguins can survive some of Earth's most extreme conditions. The largest of the penguins, the emperor, can survive ... In order to maintain a constant body temperature and to prevent overheating ...

During clear sky conditions most outer surfaces of the body were colder than surrounding sub-zero air due to radiative cooling. Dr McCafferty, from the University of Glasgow, explained, "This occurs ...

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

An emperor penguin that appeared on an Australian beach journeyed over 2,000 miles from its native Antarctica in what could ...

Today is World Penguin ... facts about these utterly adorable critters that waddle walk around in tuxedos. In addition to ruling the animal fashion world, their immaculate black and white body ...

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 ...

A lone and lost emperor penguin turned up in a western Australian town, nearly 2,100 miles (3300km) away from its home in ...