600 Penguin Chicks Killed by Shifting Ice
Associated Press
HOBART, Australia —
Australian scientists today reported finding hundreds of dead Emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica, apparently killed by shifting ice.
They found 600 dead chicks, none more than 5 weeks old, and scores of crushed eggs at a breeding ground 40 miles north of Australia’s Mawson station.
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