The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in 1911 for almost a year on Cape Adare in Antarctica, the site of the world’s ...

Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the ...

A gay penguin couple have stepped in to hatch and raise a baby chick after it was born at Chester Zoo. Males Scampi and ...

Video shows a wayward penguin swimming and diving among beachgoers along Brazil’s most iconic shoreline. It might be following fish, a penguin expert says.

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low sea ice in the Antarctic summer, but they will lose access to their main ...

Emperor penguin colonies can number in the tens of thousands. But these numbers obscure an alarming trend. Robert Harding Video/Shutterstock Breeding while it's freezing Just like polar bears in the ...

There are only five species of penguins breeding on the Antarctic continent. The Adelie penguins, emperor penguins, gentoo penguins, chinstrap penguins, and macaroni penguins.

Antarctica has way more penguins than scientists thought, which is great, because penguins Antarctica may be home to 3.6 million more Adélie penguins than previously estimated.

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over time, including southern elephant seals.

If she accepts his gift, the penguin pair bond, learn each other’s calls and typically mate for life. From there, the male Adélie penguin participates in the raising of chicks.

Meredith joins Ritula to describe life at the base, the Adélie penguins and the effect rapid climate change is having on the coldest place on earth.

They used existing tracking data for 13 Antarctic and sub-Antarctic seabirds and seals—for example Adélie penguins, sooty albatrosses and southern elephant seals— and identified 30 KBAs across the ...