DESCRIPTION: The largest of the world's penguin species, the emperor penguin stands almost four feet tall and weighs 70 to 90 pounds. It has a gray back, white belly, and orange markings behind its ...

New satellite imagery reveals four previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica. The penguins move as the sea ice they use as hatching grounds becomes more unstable because of warming ...

Conservation officials have forecasted that the penguins and their colonies could become "quasi-extinct" due to the impact of climate change Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday. The ...

We're witnessing a march of the penguins — not to the edge of the ice, but to extinction. According to new research by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the population of emperor penguins in western ...