Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive.

The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. ... With winds of up to 100 mph, the male emperor penguins huddle together for warmth, ...

emperor penguins aggregate into raucous breeding colonies along the coast of the ice continent. They need about nine months to care for their chicks, until the young penguins can go to sea and look ...

They arrived at this conclusion after noticing the record-breaking failure in Emperor penguins’ breeding, which coincided with the record levels of global warming in the spring of 2022.

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 ...

But in an astonishing feat, one emperor penguin, alone and malnourished, recently made landfall on a beach in Australia, more than 2,000 miles away from its native Antarctica.

Now climate change is coming for the penguins. Due to the dramatic loss of sea ice, several colonies of emperor penguins in Antarctica face "quasi-extinction" in the decades to come, a study ...

As Antarctica’s emperor penguins are increasingly threatened by the climate crisis, the flightless seabirds will receive new protections under the Endangered Species Act.