Part two of three! Penguins are some of the most popular animals on the planet thanks to their outstanding ability to survive ...

Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what ...

The modern emperor penguin likely evolved much later within the last few million years to adapt to the harsh arctic climate.

Shutterstock photo What if I told you that you have never seen a penguin in your life? I know you'd probably tell me I am a ...

Using the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites, they were able to observe the penguins' activity from the ... At the other end of the planet, in the Arctic, the sea-ice has been in a decades-long, steady ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – ...

Tardigrades, also known as "water bears," can survive severe temperatures, by entering a state of cryptobiosis. The fennec fox is native to the Sahara Desert and has enormous ears that radiate heat, ...

Arctic animals such as penguins, seals, and polar bears would be seriously threatened by 2 degrees of warming or less, according to the report. The animals have evolved to live on sea ice ...