Where Emperor Penguins Survived The Last Ice Age Interglacial

Sunday, March 1, 2015 - 10:10 in Earth & Climate

Too cold for a penguin? An Ice Age brought on by global warming so severe penguins had to move?Indeed. During the last interglacial, what is colloquially called an ice age though it has been such non-stop for a few million years, only three populations of emperor penguins may have survived, because much of the rest of Antarctica was uninhabitable due to the amount of ice.  read more

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