Poop sediments record Antarctic ‘penguin Pompeii’

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The perilous history of a penguin colony on a small Antarctic island has been recorded in their excrement. For thousands of years, the birds have nested on the Ardley outcrop where their poop, or guano, would collect at the bottom of a lake. But when scientists drilled into these sediments, they got quite a surprise.

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April 11, 2017 at 09:06AM