A letter from Tokyo related that the Iseniyama Temple on Lake Biwa, near Kyoto, sent His Imperial Majesty Emperor Yoshihito (122nd ruler of Japan, who was forced into retirement in 1921 owing to a ...

The latest: an influential 6th century emperor whose DNA has yielded insights into his appearance, health and ancestry. Emperor Wu, born Yuwen Yong, ruled the Northern Zhou dynasty in China from ...

Near the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huang—who proclaimed himself first emperor of China in 221 B.C.E.—lay an extraordinary underground treasure: an entire army of life-size terra-cotta ...

The God-Emperor of Mankind is, as you may have guessed from the name, a pretty important guy in the universe of Warhammer 40,000. He’s the closest thing the setting has to an actual protagonist ...

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Japanese Emperor Naruhito and his wife Empress Masako will pay a state visit to Britain in late June as guests of King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla, Buckingham ...

Emperor penguin chicks have been recorded hurling themselves from a 50-foot (15 meters) cliff in Antarctica for the first time. The "unprecedented" footage, captured at Atka Bay in Northern ...

One annual show that just happens to take place on the water is the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise and they’ve got a doozy for their first band announcement — Emperor will be on the high seas. Organizers ...

The record low level of Antarctic sea ice at the end of 2023 led to breeding failures in a fifth of the continent's emperor penguin colonies, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Emperor penguins don’t live on U.S. territory, so some of the Endangered Species Act’s measures meant to protect species’ habitats and prevent hunting them don’t directly apply.

This World Penguin Day, (25 April), conservation charity WWF is warning that Emperor penguin populations risk rapid and dramatic decline due to habitat loss – driven by climate change. Ahead of the ...

Sea ice, and particularly land-fast sea ice, is crucial for emperor penguins as a breeding and moulting platform and foraging habitat (Barbraud & Weimerskirch 2001). Emperor penguins use land-fast sea ...