The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white ... has an image of an emperor penguin embroidered on ...

Satellite photos showing poop stains in the West Antarctic snow and ice have revealed a previously unknown breeding colony of emperor penguins. A never-before-seen emperor penguin colony — one ...

Melbourne, Australia — An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday.

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An emperor penguin that appeared on an Australian beach journeyed over 2,000 miles from its native Antarctica in what could be the first appearance of the species on the continent. The penguin ...

A new study, published this week in the journal Remote Sensing Ecology and Conservation, reveals that a satellite spotted 11 new colonies of emperor penguins — nearly 20% more than previously ...

Call that a peng-win. SeaWorld San Diego recently welcomed an emperor penguin chick to its family — marking the first hatchling of the threatened species in the Western Hemisphere in nearly 13 ...

Four out of five emperor penguin colonies analyzed in the Bellingshausen Sea, west of the Antarctic Peninsula, saw no chicks survive last year as the area experienced an enormous loss of sea ice ...

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday. The adult male was ...

Patches of penguin poop spotted in new high-resolution satellite images of Antarctica reveal a handful of small, previously overlooked emperor penguin colonies. Eight new colonies, plus three ...