Emperor penguins, known as the heaviest and tallest of all penguins, in wild nature can only be found in Antarctica where they are used to dealing with an incredibly harsh environment, with windchills reaching -76°F. Therefore, people in Australia couldn ...

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday.

Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what comes next is "still being worked through."

An emperor penguin is in recovery after swimming from Antarctica to Australia — a journey of over 2,000 miles. The bird was discovered on a tourist beach on the country's southwest coast on Nov. 1, according to a government statement obtained by the Associated Press .

A lone emperor penguin was found malnourished on a popular beach after making the shocking 2,200 mile swim from Antarctica to Australia.

"There was this big bird in the water, and we thought it was another sea bird, but then it kept coming closer to the shore–and it was way too big–and it just stood up and waddled right over to us," Aaron Fowler,

An emperor penguin named Gus was found far from home on a beach in Denmark, Australia, marking the first sighting of its kind in the country.

A malnourished emperor penguin appeared on a beach in Australia, thousands of miles from its home in Antarctica. Wildlife experts rescued the bird and took it to a rehabilitation center.

An Emperor penguin has been found in Australia, more than 2,000 miles from its Antarctic home. Authorities don't know why the penguin traveled so far. It’s the first time an Emperor penguin is known to have reached Australia.

An emperor penguin traveled over 2,000 miles from its Antarctic home, appearing on the shores of Ocean Beach in Denmark, a town in Western Australia. This rare sighting, made on November 1, might mark the first recorded visit of an emperor penguin on the Australian continent.