The rare, yellow-colored penguin was one among a colony of 120,000 king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) living on the remote South Georgia Island, reports Yasemin Saplakoglu for Live Science.

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.

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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.

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 ...

Marie-Anne Thil, , Field Immobilization of King Penguins with Tiletamine-Zolazepam (Uso de tiletamine-zolazepam para inmobilizar Aptenodytes patagonicus en el campo), Journal of Field Ornithology, Vol ...

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 ...

A drop in body temperature allows significant energy savings in endotherms, but facultative heterothermy is usually restricted to small animals. Here we report that king penguin chicks ...

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 ...

Between 2015 and 2022, we opportunistically monitored the behavior of ten king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) as they moved back and forth between the two buildings while additional modifications ...