Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to ...

Today, elephant seals are uncommon visitors to the Antarctic continent, and breed on subantarctic islands including Macquarie ...

Over the past 4,000 years, the penguins in the southern Ross Sea switched from mainly eating one type of fish – the bald notothen – to another, Antarctic silverfish. The bald notothen lives ...

Adélie penguins are a vital part of the Antarctic food chain – they eat tiny creatures like krill and small fish, and are a source of food for predators like leopard seals and killer whales. By ...

The researchers found that although the Antarctic silverfish is now the primary fish consumed by Adelie penguins, it was not always their main prey. They reported that around 4,000 years ago ...

“We now understand how much they rely on those fish that inhabit water just below the sea ice, which means that Adelie penguins can only survive in a sea ice environment,” said Watanabe ...

The colour of a penguin’s poop depends on its diet – those that eat only fish pass white poo, while those like the Adelie species, which feeds on krill, poop pink. The way to a female penguin ...