Antarctica mystery: Researchers puzzled by 5,000-year-old 'mummified' penguin cemetery

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A centuries old penguin cemetery has puzzled Antarctica researchers

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The ghastly discovery was made in Cape Irizar, a part of Antarctica not known to be frequented by penguin colonies. And yet, a team of biologists led by University of North Carolina, Wilmington researcher Steven Emslie has come across a mix of mummified penguins chicks and seemingly recently dead remains. The researchers visited the site in 2016, where they discovered bones, mounds of pebbles, feathers and faecal matter among rocks - all telltale signs of a penguin nesting site.

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