A Parks and Wildlife Service boat took Gus several hours south from the city of Albany before setting him free into the Southern Ocean. Biddulph, who named the penguin after the Roman Emperor ...

“Never in my wildest thoughts would I have thought I’d ever have an emperor penguin to care for,” shared Carol Biddulph, who’s a registered wildlife rescuer and who brought Gus back to her ...

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.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of ...

An international team of scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France, has found that emperor penguins detoxify mercury with both sulfur and selenium, a new pathway for a ...

A scan of Antarctica’s coastline by medium- to high-resolution satellite imagery taken during the 2009 emperor penguin breeding season revealed a total of 46 penguin colonies—some of which were found ...