The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...

"Here we show for the first time that a small amount of penguin guano causes a sudden change in the feeding and swimming ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

The penguin poop didn’t only influence krill movements. In another phase of the experiment, researchers noticed the ...

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

The foul stench of penguin poop sets Antarctic krill on edge. In lab experiments, the mere scent of penguin droppings — or guano — sent krill scrambling for escape, researchers report March 20 in ...

Argentine and Chilean relations have not been traditionally smooth given the several borderline disputes both in land and in the sea, but there is a chance that this rivalry turns into a ...

A new tool has been created to shed light on the mysterious lives of Antarctic krill. Picture: Peter Harmsen/Australian ...

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 ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...

A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger. But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion in the Southern Ocean, the tiny crustacean’s collective impact across ...