By Paul Homewood
From GWPF:
Researcher Steven Emslie also discoveredwhat appears to be fresh remains of Adelie penguins, mostly of chicks. However, whether these “fresh” remains are a sign that the abandoned penguin site has become reoccupied again because of warmer conditions in recent years remains uncertain.
Mummy of Adélie penguin chick (total length ∼20 cm) on the surface of
site 5 that has been radiocarbon dated at ca. 800 calibrated calendar yr B.P. Source: Emslie 2020
Researcher Steven Emslie encountered a puzzle at Cape Irizar, a rocky cape located just south of the Drygalski Ice Tongue on the Scott Coast, Ross Sea. He found both ancient and what appeared to be fresh remains of Adelie penguins, mostly of chicks, which frequently die and accumulate at these colonies. However, the “fresh” remains were puzzling, he says, because there are no records of an active penguin colony at this…
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