Climate change threatens the Adélie penguins of Antarctica Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures/FLPA
MUMMIFIED penguins have been found littering the ground in Antarctica. The birds seem to have died during two bouts of extreme weather over the past 1000 years. Such conditions are expected to become more common as a result of climate change, making mass die-offs more likely.
The birds were found on Long Peninsula, in east Antarctica, by researchers led by Liguang Sun at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei.
It isn’t unusual to find dead penguins, but those on Long Peninsula – mainly chicks – are especially numerous, with…
