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 ...

Penguins — easily the most known and beloved wild animal in Antarctica — could be decimated by man-made global warming over the coming decades, according to a new study. Habitat loss caused from ...

Adélie penguins need an optimal level of sea ice to breed—too much, and access to food is threatened. Image: Louise Emmerson/Australian Antarctic Program As the fervor of Fat Bear Week rages on, a ...

A penguin colony in Antarctica has suffered a massive breeding failure, with only two chicks surviving the disaster. Terre Adélie (Adélie Land) is home to more than 18,000 pairs of Adélie penguins, ...

Of the 18 species of penguin, only two – the emperor and the Adélie - make the Antarctic continent their true home. In the Austral (southern hemisphere) spring and summer, Adélie penguins breed around ...