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 ...

In 2018, however, two emperor penguins shattered this long-held assumption ... flashing its jet-black head and pearly white ...

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 ...

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 ...

For around 175 years, no one knew the story of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) specimen, on display in Gallery One at the Natural History Museum in Tring. It was collected by British ...

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 ...