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 – ...

plus automated camera images ranging over a more than 3,100-mile stretch of coastline in East Antarctica. The team estimated 5.9 million Adélie penguins in the region, and between 14 million and ...

Adélie penguins live on the Antarctic continent and on many small, surrounding coastal islands. They spend the winter offshore in the seas surrounding the Antarctic pack ice. Adélies feed on ...

The virus doesn't cause any disease in penguins, but the study shows that “avian influenza viruses can get down to Antarctica and be maintained in penguin populations,” Hurt said. “It raises ...

said Heather Lynch A thriving “hotspot” of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula ...

“Here we show for the first time that a small amount of penguin guano causes a sudden change in the feeding and swimming behaviors of Antarctic krill,” said Dr. Nicole Hellessey, a postdoctoral ...

Chinstrap and Gentoo penguin (collectively known as pygoscelis or brushtail species) colonies along the Antarctic Peninsula, capturing high resolution images as they flew. These images have been ...

For the first time, scientists have counted all the world’s Adelie penguins -- a sprightly seabird ... of them are thriving in and around Antarctica. Stony Brook University ecology associate ...