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

Adélie penguins have unknowingly documented the changing climate of Antarctica—not in journals or fossils, but through their ...

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

Penguins are highly intelligent and emotional animals. They’re able to recognize one another and even their partners. Some ...

Little blue penguin break-up rates are a new tool that could predict their colony’s future in the face of climate change and ...

Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross ...

“Have they specialized themselves into a corner? Yeah, probably.” The study identified various ways in which penguins’ evolution has tracked geological and climatic conditions in the past. For example ...

These findings suggest that penguins could function as mercury bioindicators: living trackers of environmental pollutants, says the study’s senior author John Reinfelder, a marine biologist at ...

Successful breeding was strongly related to the amount of krill in the diet, with few chicks fledging in years where krill was particularly scarce. The longest and most comprehensive study to date ...