Nothing gets in the way of a baby emperor penguin getting into the water, not even a huge ice cliff. The courage some chicks ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild ... He wondered: Maybe those bubbles help penguins swim faster. Over beer in a pub, Hughes bounced his hypothesis off his friend John ...

Having endured many close-calls and near fatalities, the surviving emperor penguin chicks now need to cling on to the remaining sea ice until December when they will be strong enough to swim away.

Pesto the king penguin chick has waddled his way into the hearts of TikTok users and aquarium goers alike at a whopping 49 ...

But how they survived remains a mystery. The iceberg could be around 15m (49ft) tall, meaning the penguins could not climb it ...

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Emperor penguins live on sea ice and they ... baby feathers and this can make it difficult to swim, so they stay on the sea ice until they grow out ...

Antarctica's Emperor penguins could be in real difficulty come ... melts away and they don't have the right plumage to resume swimming. Antarctic sea-ice trends in recent decades have been pretty ...

When the aquarium organized a "gender reveal" for Pesto, many admirers were uncertain of his gender, as king penguins lack ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted the emperor penguin protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from sea-ice loss driven by the climate crisis. The ...

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...