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 ...

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 ...

Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their ...

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

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. More than 5,000 male emperor penguins huddle on the sea ice, backs to the wind, heads down, sharing body heat. ‘It was a calm day,’ says ...

In 2018, however, two emperor penguins shattered this long-held assumption ... flashing its jet-black head and pearly white body on the camera. Its preauricular area, featuring orange-gold ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shooting Stars Capturing the flight of emperor penguins in Antarctica is no easy feat. They rocket around underwater ...

With the warmer Australian summer approaching, Gus needed to be back in the frigid Antarctic waters to regulate his body temperature. EMPEROR PENGUINS ARE NOW LISTED AS THREATENED SPECIES "Never ...

Let’s find out. Unfortunately, penguins understand grief all too well. In 2014, BBC recorded a mother emperor penguin visibly grieving the loss of her chick. In the video, the mother tries to ...

The Emperor Penguin lives in the Antarctic environment ... This reduces heat loss from their feet to the ground. The colour of a penguin’s body helps to camouflage it when it is swimming.

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 ...