Adélie penguins live on the Antarctic continent and on many small, surrounding coastal islands. They spend the winter offshore in the seas surrounding the Antarctic pack ice. Adélies feed on ...

The foul stench of penguin poop sets Antarctic krill on edge. In lab experiments, the mere scent of penguin droppings — or guano — sent krill scrambling for escape, researchers report March 20 ...

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 – ...

Archaeologists amassed over 100 sediment samples in Antarctica to trace the history of Adélie penguins 6,000 years into the past, providing a vivid snapshot to help climate change efforts.

The researchers found that the Danger Islands have 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins--more than the rest of the entire Antarctic Peninsula region combined. They include the third and fourth ...

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 ...

Adélie penguin populations have dropped precipitously over the last 50 years due to a reduction in their major food source -- krill. Young krill feed on algae living on the underside of sea ice.

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 ...

For 6,000 years, Adélie penguins have unknowingly documented the changing climate of Antarctica—not in journals or fossils, but through their poop. In a groundbreaking study published in Nature ...

Scientists have used ancient DNA to help reconstruct 6,000 years of penguin history at the South Pole. The researchers found that Adélie penguins had taken over the habitat of southern elephant ...