The last time scientists visited the remote French island of Île aux Cochons in the Indian Ocean, they found more than 2 million king penguins, including 500,000 breeding pairs. That was 1982, and it gave the island the distinction of being the largest such colony in the world. But in the first comprehensive new count since then, researchers report in Antarctic Science that only about 200,000 king penguins now inhabit the island. (On the flip side, researchers found a previously unknown colony of a different type of penguin.) This article originally appeared on Newser: Biggest King Penguin Colony Sees a Catastrophic DropMore From Newser

Source: Fox News August 01, 2018 08:26 UTC