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Emperor penguins: New colony found after satellite images spot their poo!

Poo: it's smelly, it's full of germs, it's really pretty gross. But it can also lead to incredible scientific discoveries.

Scientists have discovered a brand new colony of Emperor penguins in Antarctica, and it's all thanks to their number twos, which were spotted from space.

The colony at Verleger Point, West Antarctica has been announced to mark Penguin Awareness Day, and is home to around 500 birds.

Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey say this brings the total of known emperor penguin sites around the continent to 66.

Satellites were taking pictures of Antarctica, and scientists spotted big patches of guano (penguin poo) in an area where they hadn't seen it before.

The pictures were taken as part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission.

They then compared the images to high resolution shots taken by what is thought to be the world's most advanced satellite - the MAXAR WorldView3.

If there's enough of it, guano is fairly easy to spot from space, as the dark colours contrast against the bright white snow and ice.

Lead author of the research Dr Peter Fretwell said: "This is an exciting discovery. The new satellite images of Antarctica's coastline have enabled us to find many new colonies."

But he added: "Whilst this is good news, like many of the recently discovered sites, this colony is small and in a region badly affected by recent sea ice loss."

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