Adelie Penguins Are the Most Widespread of All Penguins Depending on who you ask, there are either 17 or 18 recognized penguin species. They all live in the southern hemisphere, from Peru and ...

Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly. But the ammonia in the birds’ excrement does more than just stink—it can play a role in cloud formation over Antarctica. Those clouds ...

Millions more Adélie penguins may be marching across Antarctica than earlier counts suggested. Nearly six million of the tuxedoed penguins may live in East Antarctica, more than double the ...

There is no shortage of penguin poop in Antarctica. In fact, you can see it from space, if you know where to look. Researchers often use satellite observations to study Adélie penguin populations ...

Now, researchers have discovered that penguins also contribute to cloud formation through their poop. Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are medium-sized penguins that can weigh up to 13 pounds ...

They’re getting more oil to spread onto their wings. If you’ve seen penguins in movies or at the zoo, you’ve likely seen them waddling to and fro. At first glance, that may not seem like the ...

Ten of thousands of penguins, clustered together on the Antarctic Peninsula, can produce some potent stenches. Now, scientists have found that all that waste could be powerful enough to cool the ...

When the breeze blew from a 60,000-strong Adelie penguin colony eight kilometers (five miles) away, atmospheric ammonia spiked to 13.5 parts per billion—about a thousand times the background level.

Claudio Barrientos/Shutterstock.com If you’ve seen penguins in movies or at the zoo, you’ve likely seen them waddling to and fro. At first glance, that may not seem like the most efficient way to ...