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Shrinking fast ice is disrupting emperor penguins' four-week summer molt

  • February 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Shrinking fast ice is disrupting emperor penguins' four-week summer molt
Emperor penguins shed all their feathers once a year, a precarious ritual that may have become deadly as climate change pushes them into shrinking patches of Antarctic sea ice, researchers said Wednesday.

Originally published at Phys.org

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