Crappy feet. While humans might be mostly to blame for Antarctica’s snow melt, scientists are pointing to another surprising ...

Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...

The findings come as Antarctica continues to lose ice amid changing environmental conditions.

Antarctica conjures images of vast expanses of white ice and snow-covered mountains. But parts of the frozen continent are ...

Penguins are messy, gathering in dense huddles where their guano (aka poop) piles up on the ice. In fact, their poop piles are so dense that they show up on satellite images. And the guano stains ...

Snow algae can produce striking red or green patches across the Antarctic landscape, depending on their growing conditions.

Green snow algae on the Antarctic Peninsula held ten times the phosphate of red snow, and penguin guano is the likely source ...

Researchers found higher phosphate concentrations in green snow than in red or clean snow along the West Antarctic Peninsula, ...

Penguin droppings may be contributing to faster snowmelt along parts of Antarctica by supplying nutrients to algae that ...

Penguin Colony wants you to writhe. What begins as a novel adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness told ...

From penguins that fly in the sky to penguins that live in the forestWhen you hear the word penguin, what kind of image comes ...