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Scientists Uncover a Frozen History in 6,000 Years’ Worth of Penguin Poop, Revealing Past Ecology on Antarctica
Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...
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Scientists Capture Penguins Making Sounds Underwater in a Way We've Never Seen Before
Most of the penguins seemed to chat with others while they were in the sea, away from their breeding colonies.
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The Science Behind Why Penguins Don’t Fly
A Different Kind of Flight While penguins don’t soar through the skies, they’ve mastered a different kind of flight—through water. Their streamlined bodies, powerful flippers, and efficient ...
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Inside Antarctica’s plague-infested penguin colonies
A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...
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Scientists discover penguin ‘super-colony’ so large you can see it from space
That appears to be the case with a newly-discovered super-colony of Adélie penguins which, thanks to the incredible size of the group, was actually spotted from space. A paper on the discovery ...
Critically endangered penguin chicks born at Michigan zoo - and there is a contest to name them
The African penguin population has plummeted astronomically thanks to overfishing, climate change and other threats ...
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What Did Scientists Learn After Thousands of Penguins Were Slaughtered by Mountain Lions?
Javier Ciancio In 2007, only three years after the creation of Monte León National Park along the wild coastline of Argentine Patagonia, efforts to protect penguins took an unexpected turn.
Ancient DNA reveals 6,000 years of the lives of Antarctic penguins
Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross ...
Ancient DNA helps reconstruct penguin history from the Stone Age to the present day
Researchers conclude that Adélie penguins took over the Antarctic habits of seals when sea ice started to expand around 1,400 ...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
These findings, published in Science of the Total Environment, confirmed this connection in seven penguin species scattered across the Southern Ocean—a pattern suggesting they’re exposed to ...
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San Francisco science museum has welcomed 10 African penguin chicks, boosting efforts to conserve the endangered bird
A bounty of 10 African penguin chicks has hatched in just over a year at a San Francisco science museum as part of an effort to conserve the endangered bird. The penguins began hatching in ...