emperor penguins are equipped with a spiky tongue for help when eating slippery fish. Chicks rely on their parents to collect ...

However, it is troubling that Emperor penguins have to travel as far as they do to feed themselves and their chicks with their ice sheets melting at rapid rates, not seen at any other time in ...

satellite imagery with field-based validation surveys and long-term data has provided the first multi-year time series that documents emperor penguin global population trends.

Conservation biologists report the species’ population is currently stable. But emperor penguins need a certain amount of sea ice to survive. Too much sea ice increases the distances parents must ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land-fast sea ice – stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore. If this ice breaks up too early, the chicks go into the sea before they ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...

A large number of emperor penguin chicks were hit by the effects of climate change in 2023 as their icy homes were eroded despite the species’ endeavours to adjust to the shrinking landscape ...