The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...

Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin ...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

New research led by a University of Tasmania (UTAS) researcher has revealed that one particular smelly substance can trigger ...

Just a faint whiff of penguin poop pushes their favorite prey to take "frantic" evasive action, reveals new research.

Populations appear to have declined in the southern Ross Sea, likely due to changing sea ice conditions, which led to a change in the Adélie penguin diet." The sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) ...

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

Populations appear to have declined in the southern Ross Sea, likely due to changing sea ice conditions, which led to a change in the Adélie penguin diet." The sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA ...

The authors focused on Adélies, the most southernly breeding species of penguin, as 99.6% of their diet consists of Antarctic krill. An adult Adélie eats up to 1.6 kg of it per day, and the ...

In our new research, we excavated pits up to 80cm deep at ten Adélie penguin colonies along the 700km Ross Sea coastline. We then collected 156 sediment samples from different depths in each ...