penguins
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Melting Antarctic Ice Exposes 800-Year-Old Penguins That Still Look Fresh
A biologist working off the Ross Sea in Antarctica has stumbled upon an assortment of Adélie penguin remains, some of which appeared to have died only recently. Turns out these dead penguins are actually quite ancient, having been newly exposed by the effects of global warming.
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Researchers Accidentally Got High On Laughing Gas From Penguin Poop
When studying penguins, there’s a surprise you’ve gotta watch out for: the laughing gas produced by their poop.
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Nah Or Aww? Human-Size Penguins Once Waddled Across New Zealand
A fossil discovery has added another entry to the list of comically large New Zealand birds: a 1.5 metre tall penguin.
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The World’s Largest King Penguin Colony Is Catastrophically Shrinking, And We Don’t Know Why
The last time scientists visited Ile aux Cochons in 1982, an island that is part of an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, the king penguin population was booming. Over 500,000 breeding pairs (around two million penguins total) huddled together there, making the island the largest king penguin colony in the world. But new research…