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 – ...

A pair of Adelie penguins before going for a ‘feed dip’ Adelie penguins can only survive in a sea ice environment Miniature cameras attached to a penguin's head have given Japanese scientists ...

We’re working with French polar scientists at Dumont D’Urville Station in east Antarctica to monitor the lives of Adélie penguins. Climate change is complex. While disappearing sea ice poses a threat ...

Many animals engage in elaborate mating rituals ... For their land-bound cousins, like the Adélie penguin, mating rituals function more like a commodity exchange than a dance recital.

A 13-year study of tiny penguins in Australia has dispelled the ... their wings at lifelong monogamy – there's evidence that Adelie (Pygoscelis adeliae), for example, will remain coupled-up ...

I was swimming ... because the animals were approaching us out of curiosity, not the other way around. What is your favourite type of penguin and why? I am very fond of Adelie penguins, which ...

Additional research showed that the virus didn't infect other birds or animals such as ferrets. The virus doesn't cause any disease in penguins, but the study shows that “avian influenza viruses ...

Using Fitbit-style accelerometer data, depth-loggers and video footage from animal-borne cameras, we collected detailed swim-depth measurements in free-living little penguins and loggerhead turtles.

Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins ... It’s an animal, not a plant—a cousin of sea stars—and it can swim. Photographer Laurent ...