The consequences of Antarctic ice loss are serious and varied and monitoring the issue faces challenges as American ...

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low ...

Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

Presenter and wildlife conservationist Connel Bradwell finds there is evidence of same-sex courtship in almost every animal ...

Adélie Penguin Poop and Ammonia. Colonies of penguins can produce a lot of poop. ©Peter West, National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – Original / License.

Penguins are flightless birds found primarily on the coasts and islands of Antarctica, South America, Australia, New Zealand, ...

Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) in Antarctica mainly eat fish and krill, so their droppings are rich in nitrogen. In the soil, ...

Millions more Adélie penguins may be marching across Antarctica than earlier counts suggested. Nearly six million of the tuxedoed penguins may live in East Antarctica, more than double the ...

Levick describes in his zoological notes the reciprocal homosexual mountings between two male Adélie penguins, whereby one mounts the other, and then they swap places and repeat the performance ...

When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put. The existence of emperor penguins ...