The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...
(Life in Antarctica relies on a shrinking supply of krill.) In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill through a series of tests to see if they could identify the ...
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 ...
“Here we show for the first time that a small amount of penguin guano causes a sudden change in the feeding and swimming behaviors of Antarctic krill,” said Dr. Nicole Hellessey, a postdoctoral ...
A new tool has been created to shed light on the mysterious lives of Antarctic krill. Picture: Peter Harmsen/Australian Antarctic Division Poo, or guano, from Adelie penguins was collected and fed ...
An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...
Antarctic: the coldest place on Earth and has ... a diet almost completely composed of small shrimp-like animals called krill. Because krill are so small (around the size of a paper clip), blue ...
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