Nothing gets in the way of a baby emperor penguin getting into the water, not even a huge ice cliff ... as hundreds were documented taking a deep dive off an Antarctic cliff in January.

The slab of ice — named A23a — weighs almost one trillion tonnes and could slam into South Georgia Island before either ...

Today’s dive is over—but it’s only one of 32. Emperor penguins head for the open ocean in search of food. The brownish patches above them are microalgae that cling to the sea ice and start ...

The iceberg could be around 15m (49ft) tall, meaning the penguins could not climb it. “There’s an ice crack, so they might have been able to dive through it,” he says. The iceberg probably ...

Now a new study in Marine Ecology Progress Series is investigating links between penguins’ diving efficiency, oxygen storage and aerobic capacities, pre-breeding foraging, and breeding statuses.

the largest of all penguins, face extraordinary pressures. Most ominously, the rapid acceleration of global warming is causing profound changes in the Antarctic ecosystem and affecting them in diverse ...