Genetics reveals where emperor penguins survived the last ice age

Sunday, March 1, 2015 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

A study of how climate change has affected emperor penguins over the last 30,000 years found that only three populations may have survived during the last ice age, and that the Ross Sea in Antarctica was likely the refuge for one of these populations.

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