Penguins can’t spare even a second to leave their nest in order to take care of business when nature calls, so they simply lean a bit and fire their liquidy poop from where they stand.

The scientists say that penguins can launch their poop nearly 4.5 feet from their nests, and sometimes send their waste on an upward trajectory. A penguin poop paper won a Nobel Prize in 2005.

Penguins might be doing more for the planet than we thought when it comes to fighting climate change. According to new research, the clouds around Antarctica could be fueled by penguin poop.

Penguin poop in Antarctica is helping to create clouds that shield them from the effects of human-caused climate change. Also known as guano, researchers say the poop releases ammonia that ...

The link between clouds and penguin poop is not an obvious one but it has important implications for climate change. New research has revealed the cloud-forming properties of penguin guano (poop ...

Penguin Poop, Seen From Space, Tells Our Climate Story Satellite imagery of penguin poop is helping scientists see how climate change affects the birds' diet and the food chain more broadly.

You don't need to tell scatological jokes to induce laughter — penguin scat will do that on its own. That's right, the flightless bird's feces apparently produce an insane amount of laughing gas ...

There's more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought, British scientists say – thanks to large amounts of guano (or penguin poop) that's visible from space. A study ...

WASHINGTON – Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space. In remote Antarctica, about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States ...

Science Penguin poop spotted from space reveals hidden colonies in melting region of Antarctica By Sophie Lewis August 6, 2020 / 4:00 PM EDT / CBS News ...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space. In remote Antarctica, about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States ...

The penguins themselves are too small to see from above, but their excrement is not. Also known as guano, the old bird poop builds up on rocky and icy surfaces over time.