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Giant Penguins Once Lived In New Zealand — And Scientists May Finally Know Why They’re Gone
The fossil belongs to an ancestor of modern emperor and king penguins, who once lived in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
With their vast, icy landscapes and long periods of darkness or daylight, the polar regions can appear pretty much the same. But they’re actually worlds apart. Polar misconceptions and myths abound, ...
New evidence from the North and South Poles indicates that time is running out for the world’s leaders to respond to climate change. New evidence from the North and South Poles indicates that time is ...
Great penguins once lived in much warmer waters, but then retreated to the Southern Ocean. In a warming world, they might be ...
On March 29, 1912, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott wrote the final diary entry of his ill-fated quest to reach the South Pole. That same day, more than 350 kilometers away, naval surgeon and ...
Marc Macias-Fauria is a professor of physical geography at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, ...
They’re some of the coldest, windiest places in the world, but life has evolved to thrive in these icy environments. Icebergs off the coast of Antarctica can create striking natural sculptures. The ...
Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos Islands of ...
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