For around 175 years, no one knew the story of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) specimen, on display in Gallery One at the Natural History Museum in Tring. It was collected by British ...

Here's what's next for this icon. Pesto the penguin is shedding. Here's what's next for this icon. For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ For Antarctica’s emperor ...

The emperor penguin was malnourished, alone — and on a popular beach in southwest Australia, waddling through the sand more ...

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 ...

A rover quietly surveys the forbidding icy landscape. Suddenly, it whirrs into life: it has spotted an emperor penguin. With its antenna set to scan, the 90-centimetre-long robot trundles towards ...