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 ...

In Antarctica, penguin poop, or guano, can cover the ground for miles, especially around penguin colonies with thousands of individuals. In fact, large, brown guano stains on Antarctica’s white ...

Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) in Antarctica mainly eat fish and krill, so their droppings are rich in nitrogen. In the soil, the nitrogen supports thriving communities of mosses, lichens ...

Ammonia from penguin guano boosts cloud formation, potentially helping Antarctica resist climate change. Ammonia from penguin guano could be playing a surprising role in protecting Antarctica from the ...

Humpback whales may look like gentle giants, but each year they undertake nature's most extreme crash diet, shedding around ...

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has detected a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that ...

Damage to sensitive sea floor ecosystems sparks calls for tighter regulation of the tourist ship industry in the Antarctic region.

Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

A mysterious Antarctic squid was found alive for the first time in December. Footage of the unprecedented encounter has now been released.

Using satellite images, researchers determined that the emperor penguin population in the core part of their Antarctic range decreased by 22% between 2009 and 2024.

International researchers announced the discovery of a potentially over 30-million-year-old lost world located more than a mile beneath the Antarctic ice that may have teemed with rivers, forests ...