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Ancient Adélie penguin colony revealed by snowmelt 
National Science Foundation Posted September 23, 2020 The remains of an 800-year old penguin chick are revealed in snowmelt at Cape Irizar, Antarctica. Credit: Steven D. Emslie, University of North Carolina Professor of Biology and Marine Biology Dr. Steven Emslie has traveled to #Antarctica to study climate change and penguin paleohistory more than 15 times over the past few decades. His #NSFfunded research findings have recently been published in the latest online edition of Geology. As described in the paper’s abstract, fresh-appearing remains and carcasses of penguins have been revealed from under ice and snow by the recent warming trend in the Ross Sea. Read more: https://bit.ly/2G1Fq0S
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