The genus Aptenodytes contains two extant species of penguins collectively known as "the great penguins". The name "Aptenodytes" is a composite of Ancient...

The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin...

The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female...

the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster under the binomial name Aptenodytes chrysocome. The species is now placed in the genus Eudyptes that was...

Aptenodytes ridgeni, also referred to as Ridgen's penguin, is an extinct species of penguin from the Pliocene of New Zealand. It was intermediate in size...

half in the sea. The largest living species is the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri): on average, adults are about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) tall and weigh...

loud, harsh call. This species was originally given the scientific name Aptenodytes antarctica by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781, thereby placing it in...

years ago (Mya), about 2 million years after the ancestors of the genus Aptenodytes. In turn, the Adélie penguins split off from the other members of the...

flightless) Great auk, Pinguinus impennis † Emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Adélie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae Chinstrap...

putative species not yet accepted by the IOU. Family Spheniscidae Genus Aptenodytes: two species Genus Pygoscelis: three species Genus Eudyptula: one species...