Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

Recent times have seen an increase in the demand for Antarctic krill oil due to the numerous health benefits it offers. This oil, derived from small shrimp-like organisms known as krill that dwell ...

Both fish-oil pills and krill-oil supplements supply the healthful omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA. But there are differences. Krill oil comes from small crustaceans, not fatty fish, and typically ...

Krill oil is a fish oil alternative made from tiny shrimp-like crustaceans, a dietary staple for Antarctic wildlife such as whales and birds. This oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which the ...

A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger. But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion in the Southern Ocean, the tiny crustacean’s collective impact across ...

Researchers from the UTAS and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, wanted to build on earlier research done in 2016 about krill’s behaviour around food sources and instead see their reaction to ...

In a second set of experiments, the researchers showed that krill reduced their rate of ingesting algae for food by 64% when penguin poo was added to the water, dropping from 12.7 micrograms of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. Researchers from the UTAS and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, wanted to build on earlier research ...