A family's beach day took an unexpected turn after an extraordinary encounter when they stumbled upon a creature far from its ...

The modern emperor penguin likely evolved much later within the last few million years to adapt to the harsh arctic climate.

Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what ...

An emperor penguin named Gus was found far from home on a beach in Denmark, Australia, marking the first sighting of its kind ...

Why does the Arctic have polar bears and Antarctica penguins? These patterns impressed Darwin deeply. To him, they argued that species arose in single centers by descent with modification from ...

Using the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites, they were able to observe the penguins' activity from the ... At the other end of the planet, in the Arctic, the sea-ice has been in a decades-long, steady ...

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – ...

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 ...