LONDON (AFP) – Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed on Friday. The find, announced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to mark Penguin Awareness Day, brings the total number of known emperor penguin breeding sites around Antarctica’s coastline to 66. It is the […]
Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey studied satellite imagery to help identify a new colony of around 500 emperor penguins at Verleger Point, West Antarctica.