But what about the north pole? Surely with a similar climate, penguins should be able thrive in the Arctic just as they do in the Antarctic, but, well, they don't. To understand why this is ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An emperor penguin swam approximately 2,100 miles from Antarctica to western Australia in what scientists believe is the longest journey ever recorded for the species. The penguin was first ...

Arctic animals such as penguins, seals, and polar bears would be seriously threatened by 2 degrees of warming or less, according to the report. The animals have evolved to live on sea ice ...