Posted by: Sandy Steinman | March 4, 2018

Penguin Super-colony Discovered From Space

The BBC reports

Scientists have stumbled across a huge group of previously unknown Adélie penguins on the most northerly point of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Numbering more than 1.5 million birds, they were first noticed when great patches of their poo, or guano, showed up in pictures taken from space.

Read story and see video at  Penguin super-colony spotted from space – BBC News


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