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Bid now on Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis Antarctica), Deception Island, Antarctica by Sebastião Salgado. View a wide Variety of artworks by Sebastião Salgado, now available for sale on artnet ...

The link between clouds and penguin poop is not an obvious one but it has important implications for climate change. New research has revealed the cloud-forming properties of penguin guano (poop ...

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are medium-sized penguins that can weigh up to 13 pounds and stand between 2 and 2.5 feet tall. They live on the Antarctic continent and breed around the coast ...

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) belong to the penguin family Spheniscidae. They also go by the name brush-tailed penguins due to the long, still feathers on their tails that often sweep the ...

Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in the Antarctic by contributing to increased cloud formation, according to an analysis published in&nbsp ...

Life Penguin poo helps keep Antarctica cool Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which boosts particles in the atmosphere that allow climate-cooling clouds to form By ...

Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin appears like a voracious giant, streamlined like a torpedo, chasing and ...

A 13-year study of tiny penguins in Australia has dispelled the long-held myth that these seabirds mate for life, with the 'divorce rate' nearly 10 times that of the current statistics for US ...

Pebbles play an integral — and scandalous — part of Adélie penguin life. Discover more about the rocky relationship of penguin prostitution.