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Meanwhile, Antarctica has received relatively little attention. We set out to change that. The most suitable sediments are exposed near the coast of the icy continent, where penguins like to breed.

To test how krill respond to chemical evidence of nearby penguins, Hellessey and colleagues placed krill into an aquarium at Palmer Station on Antarctica’s Anvers Island. They then separated out ...

Jamie Wood Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to flourish in an otherwise inhospitable place. And, since poop ...

‘Happy Feet’ and ‘Madagascar’ were fun films but it seems there’s something about penguins they didn ... places with volcanic activity, and Antarctica doesn’t have either.

This variant is not exclusive to the cold regions of the planet, nor is it a virus that has been dormant for thousands of years, but its presence in Antarctica is harming species such as penguins.

March of the Penguins is a 2005 French feature-length nature documentary depicting the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. A direct sequel titled March of the Penguins 2: The ...