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 35 kg ( 75 lb ) or more.

Dives of the large Emperor Penguin have been recorded reaching a depth of 565 m ( 1, 870 ft ) for up to 22 minutes.

With the exception of the Emperor Penguin, where the male does it all, all penguins share the incubation duties.

Penguin eggs are smaller than any other bird species when compared proportionally to the weight of the parent birds ; at, the Little Penguin egg is 4. 7 % of its mothers ' weight, and the Emperor Penguin egg is 2. 3 %.

Penguins have been the subject of many books and films such as Happy Feet, Surf's Up and The Penguins of Madagascar, all CGI films ; March of the Penguins, a documentary based on the migration process of the Emperor Penguin ; and a parody titled Farce of the Penguins.

They are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds, as are the Emperor Penguin, the South Polar Skua, the Wilson's Storm Petrel, the Snow Petrel, and the Antarctic Petrel.

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The Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.

* Morphology of the Emperor Penguin including 3D computed tomographic ( CT ) animations of skeletons

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Adult Gentoos reach a height of 51 to 90 cm ( 20 – 36 in ), making them the third largest species of penguin after the two giant species, the Emperor Penguin and the King Penguin.

The King Penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) is the second largest species of penguin at about, second only to the Emperor Penguin.

Together with the similarly coloured but larger Emperor Penguin ( A. forsteri ), it is one of two extant species in the genus Aptenodytes.

The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin at about tall and weighing, second only to the Emperor Penguin.

The American sicophysiologist Gerry Kooyman revolutionized the study of penguin foraging behaviour in 1971 when he published his results from attaching automatic dive-recording devices to Emperor Penguins, and recording a dive of by a King Penguin in 1982.

In these latter, the incubation is interrupted ; the longest uninterrupted period is 64 to 67 days in the Emperor Penguin.

Jaivana | Jaivan Cannon-World's largest Cannon on wheels, which was cast in India during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah by his Kiladar, Jai Singh II.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Most penguins lay two eggs in a clutch, although the two largest species, the Emperor and the King Penguins, lay only one.

The Qianlong Emperor sponsored the largest collection of writings in Chinese history, the Siku Quanshu completed in 1782.

This proves to be the largest of the rebellions against Emperor Ruzi of Han.

* Constantinople, capital of Emperor Constantius II, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Rome, capital of his brother Constans I.

On 28 December 2005, the Emperor Gold Mining Company Limited, Fiji's largest private employer, announced that it would be laying off 374 workers at Vatukoula the following day.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

The tomb of Emperor Nintoku ( the 16th Emperor of Japan ) is the largest in the world by area.

The Yongle Emperor is buried in the Changling ( 長陵, " Long Mausoleum ") tomb, the central and largest mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty Tombs.

His relationship with the Emperor allowed him to pursue a military career that, after minor initial successes, ended in 468, when he led the disastrous Roman invasion of Vandal Africa, in one of the largest military operations of Late Antiquity.

One of the largest was the Kangxi Dictionary compiled by 1716 under the auspices of the Kangxi Emperor ( r. 1661 – 1722 ); it provides definitions for over 47, 000 characters.

It was one of the world's earliest, and the then largest, encyclopaedia commissioned by Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty in 1403, completed about 1408.

The renovation of Speyer Cathedral, the largest of the Imperial Cathedrals of the Holy Roman Empire and the burial church of the Salian dynasty, was begun around 1080 by the Emperor Henry IV, soon after he had returned from a trip to Canossa in northern Italy.

As the monarch of the largest German state which had a key role in the unification, Emperor Wilhelm I had ruled over the German Empire ever since the unification of Germany on 18 January 1871.

The most famous stone " state cameos " from this period are the Gemma Augustea, the Gemma Claudia made for the Emperor Claudius, and the largest flat engraved gem known from antiquity, the Great Cameo of France.

The largest picture print was The Triumphal Arch commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and completed in 1515.

Because it was a state temple built by the Emperor, this temple was the largest and enjoyed the highest status of all Mazu temples in the country.

The Emperor of Exmoor, a red stag ( Cervus elaphus ), was Britain's largest known wild land animal, until it was killed in October 2010.

* Emperor penguin videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

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Also explored is the life of the Emperor penguin, " the only birds to lay their eggs directly on ice ".

In the austral winter of 1911, Wilson led " The Winter Journey ", a journey with Henry Robertson Bowers and Apsley Cherry-Garrard, to the Emperor penguin breeding grounds at Cape Crozier to collect eggs for scientific study.

Penguin species found on the peninsula, especially near the tip and surrounding islands, include the Chinstrap Penguin, Emperor Penguin, Gentoo penguin and the Adelie Penguin.

With Wilson and Lieutenant Henry ' Birdie ' Bowers, Cherry made a trip to Cape Crozier in July 1911 during the austral winter in order to secure an unhatched Emperor penguin egg.

Its emblem is the Emperor penguin on a map of Antarctica.

Six months after arriving in Antarctica, Bowers made the " Winter Journey " to the Emperor penguin breeding grounds at Cape Crozier in July 1911 with Dr. Edward Adrian " Bill " Wilson and Apsley Cherry-Garrard.