The Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot track has a prominent bend, which has served as the basis for the theory that the Hawaiian hotspot, fixed in the deep mantle, traced a change in plate motion. However, paleomagnetic and radiometric age data from samples recovered by ocean drilling define an age-progressive paleolatitude history, indicating that the Emperor Seamount trend was principally formed by th...

New research finds that the emperor penguin is able to tolerate extremely low oxygen levels during its dives for food.

Abstract For the emperor, quoting Homer was both a danger and an opportunity. Suetonius’ Lives shows that anecdotes of quotation circulated widely to characterise emperor for good or ill. Subsequently, these moments could themselves become subject allusion. If you quote line famously quoted by are poet Caesar? This phenomenon, whereby poetic cliché be reborn as charged reference prior use tag w...