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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Emperor penguins' feathers defy conventional wisdom, study finds

Emperor penguins eat, sleep and breed in one of the harshest environments in the world -- icy Antarctica, in temperatures that can dip below -40 in the winter. It would be easy to assume that they have the thickest, densest feathers in the bird world.

But a new study reveals that’s not the case...



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