The egg usually hatches before the female returns to rear her chick, while the male – having not eaten for four months - makes the journey to the sea to feed himself but also provide for his chick.

Pebbles play an integral — and scandalous — part of Adélie penguin life. Discover more about the rocky relationship of ...

All but two Adelie penguin chicks have starved to death in their east Antarctic colony, in a breeding season described as "catastrophic" by experts. It was caused by unusually high amounts of ice ...

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 – ...

is also home to an Adelie penguin egg collected by famed explorer Ernest Shackleton during one of his historic expeditions to the Antarctic.

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 ...

During brooding (the period in which penguins are getting ready to incubate their eggs), Adelie penguins have been known to point their rear ends away from the nest and release a projectile of ...

Research by Petaluma-based non-profit, Point Blue Conservation Science, shows how Adélie penguins within the Ross Sea, Antarctica use sea ice in their annual migrations. The paper, "Going with ...

The group of nine rocky islands, which lie off the northern tip nearest South America, in the northwest Weddell Sea, housed the third- and fourth-largest Adelie penguin colonies in the world, ...

For example, Gentoo penguins, King penguins, Adelie penguins ... emperor penguins who are responsible for looking after the eggs until the chicks hatch. They are great swimmers, but aren't ...