Researchers scanning satellite images of West Antarctica stumbled onto clusters of emperor penguins gathered on fast ice to molt, a seasonal process in which the birds shed and regrow their feathers.
When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants ...
The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last ...
Animals that are higher up the food chain, such as penguins, are especially vulnerable to changes in the environment.
The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used ...
The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it's usually bad news for species that depend on each other — like flowers blooming too early and pollinating bees ...
The Pueblo Zoo announced on Facebook the birth of a critically endangered African penguin chick, marking the first such ...