As the fervor of Fat Bear Week rages on, a different corner of the animal kingdom is in trouble: The Antarctic penguin community. Australian researchers studying Adélie penguins point to a plunging ...

Many animals engage in elaborate mating rituals. For flight-ready birds, these often involve complex dance moves and peacock-like displays of grandeur. For their land-bound cousins, like the Adélie ...

Adelie penguins are often seen as charming, but their relationships are anything but calm. This video explores the constant ...

An Antarctic penguin’s misadventure has seen it waddle ashore almost 2,000 miles from home. The Adélie penguin, which is native to Antarctica, washed up on the coast of New Zealand on Wednesday. The ...

Adélie penguins seem to have passed a portion of the mirror test, in which animals that see their reflection in a mirror appear to recognise that they are seeing themselves and not another individual.

It was only a matter of time before human-caused climate change and pollution reached even the most isolated continent on the planet. As global temperature rises, Antarctica's pristine landscape is ...

Photograph of an Adélie penguin breeding colony, Edmonson Point, Antarctica. Adélie penguin nests consist of a shallow scrape, pebbles, and bones. Credit: Carlo Baroni and Maria Cristina Salvatore, ...

Comfort movements include the behaviours of shaking, stretching, cleaning, preening, and washing. These were described and analyzed for Adélie Penguins. The function for some movements such as ...