From the iconic emperor penguin to the Magellanic penguin, these striking photos capture the beauty of the aquatic birds.

This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

The penguins live on Ile aux Cochons (Pig Island), which lies in the southern Indian Ocean between Africa and Antartica. The decline “is completely unexpected, and particularly significant since this ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the thousands of king penguins that densely congregate on the remote Possession Island each year now face a new threat: climate change. The birds spend most ...

This tundra-clad outcrop of permafrost and penguins lies within an extremely isolated island chain in the Southern Ocean. We're seeing just a comparative handful of the more than 100,000 king ...

Scientists are trying out an alternative bio-indicator – the king penguin – to investigate whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change. We are used to hearing about the ...

A waddle of King penguins on the shores of Heard Island. (Matt Curnock / Australian Antarctic Division) “It just shows and exemplifies the fact that nowhere on Earth is safe from this ...

As the Falkland Islands are a mere 750 miles of the nearest point of Antarctica, it is here where many penguin species make their home. Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King ...

African penguins are relatively small compared to Emperor and King penguins. The birds have black beaks and faces and speckled white bellies. They grow to over 2 feet tall, and weigh up to 11 ...

as many as a million penguins nest in the Falklands every summer, representing five of the world’s seventeen species – King, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Magellanic and Macaroni. What’s more ...