Macaroni penguins range from the sub-Antarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. They breed in at least 216 colonies at 50 sites, including southern Chile, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South ...

Populations have declined by up to 50% in some places and one colony off the Antarctic Peninsula has ... 18 different species of penguin, only two (the emperor and Adélie) are actually true Antarctic ...

This story appears in the November 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The western side of the Antarctic Peninsula has been experiencing some of the fastest warming winters on the planet ...

Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to ...

such as fog If you’re desperate to see king penguins, they are rarely seen on the Antarctic Peninsula. The vast colonies often pictured are in South Georgia. Also, emperor penguins are generally ...

Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross Sea coast, showing how animals in the region responded to climate and ...

Half to three-quarters of major Antarctic penguin colonies face decline or disappearance if global ... Fifty years of temperature measurements show that the Western Antarctic Peninsula is one of the ...

Primarily in the Bellingshausen Sea, at the southern tip of Antarctica, rising temperatures caused the ice where the penguins ... Bryan Peninsula, and Pfrogner Point. All five colonies had been ...