When a male Adélie penguin has his eye on a particular female, he searches for the right pebble. Upon discovery, he waddles back to the colony and presents it to the eye of his beholder.

So we end up with a large population of Adelie penguins in a region likely ... Evidence of the previously-unknown penguin colony first emerged in data from the Landsat Earth-monitoring satellites ...

Chicks’ downy feathers are not waterproof, and not a single chick from a colony of 30,000 adult pairs survived the 2013-14 breeding season. We’re working with French polar scientists at Dumont ...

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 – ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have counted all the world’s Adelie penguins -- a sprightly seabird considered a bellwether of climate change –- and discovered that millions of them are ...

As soon as I set foot on the island, before our team unpacked our gear, my colleagues and I went to visit the emperor penguin colony located only a couple of hundred meters from the French ...