British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Feb 25

Last year, in 2025, the conditions were much better. But BAS emperor penguin expert Dr Peter Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social has only spotted a small proportion of the penguins we'd normally see. These penguins haven't yet been spotted elsewhere, suggesting that thousands of penguins died.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 · Feb 25

Here's the full story on our website: www.bas.ac.uk/news/acciden... And here's the paper in Communications Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...