Biologists studying animal life on Antarctica believed that a particular species of penguin was in peril, undergoing precipitous population decline since the 1970s. However, new findings show a massive discovery of the black-and-white seabirds—mainly because researchers missed looking on one group of islands on the tip of the continental peninsula. 1
Researchers discovered more than 750,000 nesting pairs of the Adélie penguin—or more than 1.5 million in all—on the Danger Islands archipelago, which consists of nine, small masses spanning 35 kilometers on Antarctica's northern tip, facing South America. 2