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Melting Ice Reveals Mummified Penguins in Antarctica – The New York Times
Birds that appeared “freshly dead” near an Italian research base turned out to be centuries old.
In January 2016, Steven Emslie was finishing a season of studying penguin colonies living near Zucchelli Station, an Italian base in Antarctica. With the austral summer quickly coming to a close and all planned work completed, Dr. Emslie, an ornithologist at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, did what any good scientist would do with a few extra days in the Antarctic: He went exploring.
He had heard rumors of penguin guano on a rocky cape along the Scott Coast but knew of no active c…
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