For flight-ready birds, these often involve complex dance moves and peacock-like displays of grandeur. For their land-bound ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

File photo of an Adelie penguin, a species that lives exclusively on the Antarctic peninsula A penguin has found itself on the shores of New Zealand, at least 3,000 kilometres (1,864 miles ...

The scientists used an algorithm to search images from the American Landsat spacecraft for sites of possible penguin activity ... the West Antarctic Peninsula, Adelie and chinstrap penguins ...

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 ...