16-06-30 Climate has influenced the distribution patterns of Adlie penguins across Antarctica for millions of years. The geologic record shows that as glaciers expanded and covered Adlie breeding habitats with ice, penguin colonies were abandoned. When the g...

12-11-23 For the first time, researchers tracking the behavior of emperor penguins near the sea have identified the importance of sea ice for the penguins' feeding habits. The research, published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Shinichi Wa...

12-06-21 At nearly four feet tall, the Emperor penguin is Antarctica's largest sea bird -- and thanks to films like March of the Penguins and Happy Feet, it's also one of the continent's most iconic. If global temperatures continue to rise, however, the Empe...

09-11-11 Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many...