Emperor penguins seem to be vanishing by the thousands during their most vulnerable period, when they must shed and regrow their feathers on stable ice.

Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, posing a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study says. Three ...

Unstable sea ice is sending some penguins into Antarctica's frigid waters before the birds have a chance to regrow their ...

Other penguins that have limited diets are more threatened by changes coming from a warming ocean and the makeup of the food ...

Tourists onboard a Polar Latitudes Expeditions ship in Antarctica saw a pair of orcas hunting a gentoo penguin.

Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding ...

Longer summers are allowing more king penguin chicks to bulk up and survive the winter, but the penguins' main fishing area is shifting further away as temperatures rise ...

Antarctic penguins are being forced to breed earlier due to rising temperatures, a phenomenon that poses a significant threat to two species facing extinction by the end of the century, a new study ...

The tall black-and-white residents of Antarctica, who waddle around its icy landscape, are in peril thanks to the rapidly ...

The birds' already risky molting strategy—in which they shed and regrow all their feathers at once—is becoming even more hazardous due to climate change ...

Ten of thousands of penguins, clustered together on the Antarctic Peninsula, can produce some potent stenches. Now, scientists have found that all that waste could be powerful enough to cool the ...