They can dive down to 180m – though they tend to catch their food (mainly krill and fish) much closer to the surface. Penguins may seem cute to us, but they're excellent predators and very efficient ...

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 ...

Today is World Penguin Day, a special day in which the Adelie penguin supposedly begins ... with the darkness of the ocean and keep prowling predators from above at bay. On the flip side, their ...

As Antarctica’s icy grip melts away under climate change, a forgotten legacy of early polar explorers may threaten not only ...