This shift was enough to increase aerosol particle concentrations by 10,000 times and form fog associated with visible clouds ...

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) belong to the penguin family Spheniscidae. They also go by the name brush-tailed ...

Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in Antarctica by contributing to ...

Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) were known to nest on the Danger Islands, near the tip of the west Antarctic Peninsula. But only in 2014 did satellite images reveal large areas stained with ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found that both chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) and Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) have seen their ...

Take chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus), the adorable two-foot-plus waddling birds named for the distinctive and dignified black stripes at the bottoms of their heads, which are ...

The study, published in the journal Marine Biology, examines the diets of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) at Bird Island, South Georgia over a 22 year period and is part of a project ...

After spending months at sea, hunting for fish and swimming in the iciest waters, female Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) toboggan to the same breeding grounds, year after year. Waddling ...

But the chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus), a species named after the distinctive black strip under its head, has taken this sleeping pattern to the extreme. In nesting season, male ...

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