Emperor penguins are a vital part of the Antarctic food chain – they eat creatures like squid and small fish, and are an important source of food for predators like leopard seals and large sharks. By ...

The emperor penguin is a member of the penguin family Spheniscidae. It is the largest member of the penguin family, and one ...

New Australian research using satellite imagery to monitor the location of emperor penguin colonies in East Antarctica, shows ...

Barbara Wienecke, a seabird researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division, explained that emperor penguins have ...

For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ As ice melts, emperor penguins march toward extinction As ice ...

He’s eating quite a bit but he’s not at all ... King penguins are the second-largest species, after emperor penguins, and breed on islands in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, including South ...

Weighing 22 kilograms (49 pounds) at nine months old, Pesto is the heaviest penguin chick ever recorded at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, eating 25 fish a day. In comparison, his parents ...

Existing emperor penguin colonies and their average population sizes from 2009 to 2018. The colonieshighlighted in red represent those with available population size estimates. Colonies marked in ...

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 ...

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.