The dramatic scene of this penguin separating from its flock was filmed at the McMurdo Station located at the tip of Ross ...

The modern emperor penguin likely evolved much later within the last few million years to adapt to the harsh arctic climate.

When on the ice, do as the penguins do ... The secret to avoiding icy tumbles: Impersonate a penguin! When we walk, we keep our center of gravity between our legs, so each leg supports half ...

In July 1911, it took Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers 19 days to travel from Cape Evans to the emperor ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted the emperor penguin protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from sea-ice loss driven by the climate crisis. The ...

The seal and penguin populations on South Georgia have ... In January 2023, a massive piece of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of two New York Cities — broke free.

The "mega-berg," as some call it, is a sprawling ice sheet that once covered around 1,500 square miles but on its journey northward from Antarctica lost about 200 square miles of mass. Either way ...

Most ominously, the rapid acceleration of global warming is causing profound changes in the Antarctic ecosystem and affecting them in diverse ways — melting the sea ice they need for ... 11 of the ...