A new fossil discovery has revealed that New Zealand’s ancient monster penguins were not the only human-sized flightless birds that roamed our planet tens of millions of years ago. Recent findings in North America and Japan suggest that giant creatures like penguins also spread throughout the northern hemisphere. And these …
Read More »At least some penguins benefited from the loss of Antarctic sea ice
Adelie penguins in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, enjoy easy access to food and increase body weight and reproductive success in an ice-free summer.Photo: Yuuki Watanabe (National Polar Research Institute, Japan) Antarctic sea ice has crashed in recent years. It’s nothing to celebrate, but apparently some Antarctic penguins love it. A new …
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