Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...

The yellow colored king penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus was spotted after photographer Yves Adams suddenly saw penguins swimming towards the shore. Yves Adams/Kennedy News. In December 2019 ...

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are a leading example. These resilient birds breed in colonies on the Antarctic continent, which is the coldest, windiest, and driest place on the planet.

Lin Padgham / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0. Reaching heights of four feet, the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest of all penguin species, and the photogenic bird that's often ...

Small endothermic animals often drop their body temperature—a process known as heterothermy—to conserve energy. This study demonstrates heterothermy in king penguin chicks (Aptenodytes ...

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Unlike other penguins, emperors (Aptenodytes forsteri) breed on sea ice rather than land. Male emperor penguins hatch the eggs in August, during the Antarctic winter.

Since the 1960s, scientists have been learning all that they can about one emperor penguin colony at Terre Adélie, East Antarctica.According to previous studies, the colony in Terre Adélie could ...

Known since the 1960s, the colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Île aux Cochons, in the southern Indian Ocean, had the distinction of being the world's biggest colony of king ...