Man spends 8 months on tiny island, captures king penguin story in 'A Year on Planet Earth'

Wildlife cameraman Tom Hartwell joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" to discuss the special and what it was like to spend eight months on a small, remote, subarctic island to capture the life of the penguins from conception. 

"It was very, very cool to be a part of," he continued. 

Hartwell spent several months on the South African island, at the start of the global pandemic, to film the series. 

The story about the penguins, from start to finish, can be found in episode 1 of the series titled, "Winter." The first episode also highlights how animals battle extreme climates during the winter months in places like Dalen in Norway and Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. 

Hegseth asked Hartwell if he named each penguin on the island, and he responded by noting it would have taken quite some time to do so, given how many of the animals use the island as a breeding ground. 

"We would have been there a long time," Hartwell said. "It's over a million penguins that go to the island to breed, so I would have been there naming them for a long time."