For their land-bound cousins, like the Adélie penguin, mating rituals function more like a commodity exchange than a dance recital. The Adélie penguin, or Pygoscelis adeliae, is a penguin ...

Bird migration is one of nature’s great wonders. Here’s how they do it. Read Hidden Penguin Mega-Colonies Discovered in Antarctica Hidden Penguin Mega-Colonies Discovered in Antarctica Hidden ...

Pairs of Adélie penguins dropped by more than 40% but the ... Since the 1970s three Adélie colonies have disappeared completely. Chinstraps have been in steady decline while gentoos have ...

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – ...

Researchers have studied the emperor penguins around Pointe Géologie, in Terre Adélie, since the 1960s ... 2012 looked at all known emperor penguin colonies identified in images from space ...

To find the best nest site, Adelie penguins undertake the longest penguin migration on Earth. Chinstrap penguins live in the largest penguin colonies on earth. A king penguin's feathers offer a ...

In 2013, scientists from BAS were lucky to find a brief window of clear weather when they could fly over 140 of the 500 or so known Adélie, Chinstrap and Gentoo penguin (collectively known as ...

Shackleton’s Emperors,” an 18-day voyage to see the Emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill Island. The special voyage also ...

Today is World Penguin Day, a special day in which the Adelie penguin supposedly begins its annual northward migration to Antarctica. In celebration, here are five fabulous facts about these ...

Scientists in Australia say they have recorded a big drop in a population of Adélie penguins off the east coast of Antarctica. Long-term monitoring has revealed a decrease of nearly 50% in the ...