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 ...

The Adélie penguin has been in quarantine at Wellington Zoo since 12 October. In addition to testing for bird flu, the veterinary team carried out a full health check including, x-rays ...

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 – ...

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 ...

With brown fur and almond-shaped eyes, a baby penguin emerged from the comfort of its shell that had been home for the past six weeks. Its Dec. 15 birth at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska ...

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 ...