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 penguin colony in the back consists of adult and young birds, sleeping, watching, flapping their wings or cleaning their plumage. emperor penguin adult and chick Locked down wide shot of an ...

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 ...

walking penguin family An adult emperor penguin with two chicks (one almost grown up, one quite young) is walking forward, the camera follows them. Each of them walks at a different speed what makes ...

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.

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