The emperor penguin was malnourished, alone — and on a popular beach in southwest Australia, waddling through the sand more ...
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 ...
Curious emperor penguins take a selfie video in Antarctica Strong winds hollowed out the sea-ice that had stuck hard to the side of the thicker Brunt shelf in its creeks, and never properly reformed.
"Emperor penguins normally breed on the sea ice, but its increasing destabilisation often forces them to finish their annual moult. "When it is time for them to return to the ocean, they must take ...