Many animals engage in elaborate mating rituals. For flight-ready birds, these often involve complex dance moves and peacock-like displays of grandeur. For their land-bound cousins, like the Adélie ...

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 are investigating how Adélie penguin colonies along the coast of Antarctica’s Ross Sea have adapted over the last 6,000 years. Jamie Wood Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, ...

Everyone’s parka hood is pulled tight against a bitter wind from the south, blinkering our vision and causing us to bump into ...

Studies of ancient DNA have tended to focus on frozen land in the northern hemisphere, where woolly mammoths and bison roamed. Meanwhile, Antarctica has received relatively little attention. We set ...

Adélie penguins may look like a bunch of bumbling cartoon characters, but they live under rules stricter than a gated community with too much free time and a neighborhood watch on steroids. There’s no ...

Photograph of an Adélie penguin breeding colony, Edmonson Point, Antarctica. Adélie penguin nests consist of a shallow scrape, pebbles, and bones. Credit: Carlo Baroni and Maria Cristina Salvatore, ...

A colony of over 18,000 pairs of Adélie penguins in Terre Adélie, Antarctica, suffered a catastrophic breeding failure at the start of 2017 with only two chicks surviving. WWF is demanding greater ...