Nothing gets in the way of a baby emperor penguin getting into the water, not even a huge ice cliff. The courage some chicks have in the face of adversity is truly unmatched, serving them well as ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...

A large number of emperor penguin chicks were hit by the effects of climate change in 2023 as their icy homes were eroded despite the species’ endeavours to adjust to the shrinking landscape ...

The down feathers on emperor chicks are not waterproof. They must fledge before the ice breaks up A catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the Antarctic, with up to ...

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”. “Abrupt reductions” in sea ice that persisted ...

According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.

In this clip from the BBC Select documentary Penguins: Spy in the Huddle, we see an emperor penguin meet his chick for the first time - and we learn about the special relationship between father ...

An Emperor penguin was tired, hungry, and underweight after swimming 2,100 miles to Australia from Antarctica.

A team led by researchers at ... Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds' attempts ...

Determined to keep global warming from finally tipping the odds too heavily against emperor penguins’ survival, the Center petitioned back in 2006 to gain Endangered Species Act protection for this ...