When penguin colonies are surrounded by sea ice, the penguins tend to eat more fish, rather than krill. And colonies that eat ...

Researchers in Antarctica have used 30 years of satellite data – combined with hand-scooped poop samples – to learn more about penguin populations. And what they’ve found has them worried. In a new ...

Luckily for Heather Lynch, Adélie penguins eat mostly two things: fish and krill. Krill have a distinct pink color that penguin poop retains. And penguins form colonies, meaning that together, they ...

Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly. But the ammonia in the birds’ excrement does more than just stink—it can play a role in cloud formation over Antarctica. Those clouds affect ...

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, ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Scientists from a handful of universities across the country have made innovative use of satellite images from NASA: to determine the diet of Antarctic Adélie penguins across the ...

Penguins on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands are breeding substantially earlier in the year than just a decade ago, according to new research. The study used remote cameras to track the ...