COLUMN. To produce this unique sound, the horse performs a 'biphonation': It cries out and whistles at the same time.

This month, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir embarked on her second journey to the ...

Quark Expeditions made history in 1991 when it became the first cruise line to take tourists to the North Pole. Since then, ...

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

The United States listed emperor penguins as an endangered species in 2022 because multiple studies project large population ...

Emperor penguins shed all their feathers once a year, a precarious ritual that may have become deadly as climate change ...

Penguins are flyingless aquatic birds which are adapted to swimming and diving. They are identified by their black and white colouring, the erect posture on land and a wing shaped like a flipper that ...

Emperor Penguins in a snow storm in Antarctica.© Ian Duffy from UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Even when temperatures drop below zero degrees Fahrenheit in the frigid Antarctic, emperor penguins ...

Emperor penguins may be facing the biggest threat to their existence so far. Shrinking sea ice means ice has been ...

The emperor penguins of Antarctica are threatened by a loss of sea ice which is retreating because of climate change ...

This summer, SeaWorld Orlando will become the sole location in the Western Hemisphere where visitors can observe Emperor penguins—the most sizable and recognizable penguin species on the planet—up ...