Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's ...

Nature has innumerable life-threatening predators who might be smaller in size or may have an innocent-looking appearance. While most people are familiar with lions, wolves, and sharks, the world is ...

Researchers measured the amount of nitrogen and carbon in the whiskers, which tells them the kinds of animals the leopard ...

Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem as an important food source for many species, such as ...

Originalpublikation: Bahlburg D, Menze S, Krafft BA, Lowther AD, Meyer B: Mapping encounters between Antarctic krill fishing vessels and air-breathing krill predators using acoustic data from the ...

Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem: it is an important food source for many species, such as whales, seals and penguins. However, the small crustaceans are ...

What would happen if the fiercest marine predators swapped the salty sea for our freshwater lakes and rivers? It may sou ...

Escaping the Adélies Because krill are preyed upon by many kinds of predators, it’s likely that different evasive maneuvers are required of them depending on the situation.

We thus expect krill to show similar swimming behaviors and suppressed feeding around seals, whales, and other types of krill predators in Antarctica,” said Hellessey.

Krill use their antennae to sniff out food, mates and even pollution. But scientists weren’t sure if they could detect predators by scent.

There is something in the water Zooplankton like krill are sensitive to chemical cues about food, mates, and pollution and adapt their behavior accordingly, and Hellesseyet al.wanted to know if krill ...