Many of Gary Larson's cartoons revolve around animals acting like humans, but the ones featuring penguins are some of the ...

As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins. Four ...

Emperor penguin chicks emerge from their eggs in the coldest days of Antarctica’s winter. For the first months of their lives the birds are defenseless gray fluffballs, seeking warmth at their parents ...

All but one of five known breeding sites for emperor penguins in a part of Antarctica experienced a “total breeding failure” during the 2022 season because of the loss of sea ice, according to a study ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the species under the Endangered Species Act as a result of the findings. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

These are Emperor penguins. They live in Antarctica and they have long been under threat of extinction. Now, their species chance of survival has just been dealt another blow after *** mass of sea ice ...

Thousands of emperor penguins cluster on the ice of Atka Bay in Antarctica, mostly unaware that an interloper lives among them. Slightly shorter than the average adult emperor, the 3-foot-tall ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

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As they have for millennia, thousands of emperor penguins arrived at their breeding grounds on the sea ice clinging to the rugged coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in May and June of 2022. The adults ...