We all know that penguins are a group of flightless birds that live predominantly in Antarctica. The biology of penguins is well studied and volumes of information about penguins are known to the scientists and researchers across the globe. The glaciers over Antarctica and the penguins are less known to mankind.

It is been reported that 3% of the glaciers in Antarctica is composed by the urine of penguins, and which is indeed an amazing fact. Since the temperature over there is much below 0 centigrade. The urine of penguins has to freeze in the ice, and the urine has no scope to get washed off or can get evaporated out.

This could set the stage for new types of plants and animals to arrive and spread on the Antarctic Peninsula as temperatures continue to rise. Excluding seals, penguins, and flying birds that spend some of their time on land, the Antarctic Peninsula’s land is inhabited by only a few readily recognizable living things such as lichens and moss that grow on rocks, near-microscopic worms, tiny mites, and 6-legged animals called tardigrades that can be smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. It’s a fragile ecosystem, long separated from the rest of the world.

Since 5000 years, every summer and fall, penguins live on Danco have dived into the water, eat krill, then return to the island and poop out the remains of those meals.

Melted into the surface of the ice in Antarctica and there are straight yellow or orange lines, each a couple feet long, show that despite its low undercarriage and small stature, the gentoo penguin can pee like a race horse.