When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put. The existence of emperor penguins ...

Three Adelie penguins approached a resting Emperor penguin on an icy Antarctic shoreline. Filmed on January 28, the moment ...

Researchers studying the effects of climate change in Antarctica say shrinking sea ice means bad news for emperor penguins: an 81 percent reduction in the number of breeding pairs by 2100. "We ...

A decade-long study led by Penguin Watch, at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, has uncovered a record shift in the breeding season of Antarctic penguins, likely in response to ...

Adélie penguins may look like a bunch of bumbling cartoon characters, but they live under rules stricter than a gated community with too much free time and a neighborhood watch on steroids. There’s no ...

On a beach in southern New Zealand, a creature thousands of miles from home made a rare stop. Irene Wright McClatchy News The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled by ...