In the video, Gentoo penguins of Neko Harbour waddle in orderly lines, carving criss-cross patterns in the icy landscape.

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

A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...

As of the afternoon of Tuesday, March 11, an online poll for the naming showed Eggs Benedict and Quiche were in the early ...

scientists have been looking for new colonies by searching satellite imagery for their guano stains on the ice. There are 66 known emperor penguin colonies, of which half have been identified via ...

The findings, published yesterday (August 4) in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, relied on streaks of the penguins’ rusty red guano captured in images of sea ice taken from space. While the ...

the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard uproar. Then the smell hits, a choking reek of fish and ammonia from the birds' guano. But the assault ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable ... even from 800km up to spot the animals' excrement, or guano, on the white ice and then to estimate the likely ...

Once, the only problem the birds had to deal with from humans was when the birds' droppings or guano were collected to be used as a very useful fertiliser – this could affect the penguins ...