A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) encourages the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to reclassify emperor penguins on the Red List. Most importantly ...

A never-before-seen emperor penguin colony — one of only 66 known to exist — has been spotted by accident in satellite photographs of West Antarctica that clearly show their guano, or ...

But they are the reason Antarctic researchers have been able to identify four new colonies of emperor penguins ... existed for years but hadn't been spotted until Peter Fretwell, a geographic ...

The four newly discovered colonies likely existed for many years, but scientists hadn’t previously spotted them ... 1 : Newly reported emperor penguin colonies, shown in red boxes.

Previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins have been spotted in new satellite imagery. Emperor penguins, considered “near threatened” with extinction, are the world’s largest penguins.

Here’s how it works. Emperor penguin chicks have been recorded hurling themselves from a 50-foot (15 meters) cliff in Antarctica for the first time. The "unprecedented" footage, captured at Atka ...