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

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

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

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

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

Krill have a red pigment ... be possible to analyse the number in a section of water using satellite images. Rather than needing polar gear, people could even check up on populations from their ...

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 ...

Humans aren’t the only ones repelled by penguin poo, however. To krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures, the smell of penguin poo triggers evasive maneuvers, probably because they know that penguins are on ...

Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin ...

In a second set of experiments, the researchers showed that krill reduced their rate of ingesting algae for food by 64% when penguin poo was added to the water, dropping from 12.7 micrograms of ...