Scientists have discovered that an annual event when Emperor penguins completely shed and regrow their feathers is putting the birds in peril as Antarctica is transformed by a war ...

A chance discovery by British Antarctic Survey scientists has revealed a troubling threat to the survival of emperor penguins. The Madingley-based researchers were examining satellite images when they ...

Unstable sea ice is sending some penguins into Antarctica's frigid waters before the birds have a chance to regrow their protective waterproof feathers ...

Penguins that conserve more energy on these trips arrive in better condition, which matters once the demands of breeding season begin. A Strategy Tied To Survival Tobogganing links directly to the ...

The United States listed emperor penguins as an endangered species in 2022 because multiple studies project large population ...

Huge numbers of Emperor penguins in Antarctica may have died because of melting sea ice, experts fear. For the first time, scientists have used satellites to spot the places where ...

Penguins tend to evoke images of Antarctic ice shelves rather than sunny shorelines. Yet along the coast of South Africa lives the African penguin, a small, vocal seabird adapted to temperate waters.

CHICAGO – Imagine you live in the suburbs of Chicago and you must commute hundreds of miles to a job in Iowa just to put food on the table. Magellanic penguins living on the Atlantic coast of ...