Scientists found a new emperor penguin colony by tracking poo markings from space

In honor of this year's Penguin Awareness day, the British Antarctic Survey announced the existence of a previously undiscovered emperor penguin colony in one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Antarctica. Scientists spotted the colony, the 66th to be found on the continent, by comparing satellite imagery captured by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission and Maxar's WorldView-3 satellite. The photo you see below is the one that led the British Antarctic Survey to th...