{"id":447054,"date":"2018-03-02T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=812dcc8f7e9566c0f1beeca558eb0c3b"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:10:04","slug":"previously-unknown-supercolony-of-adlie-penguins-discovered-in-antarctica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=447054","title":{"rendered":"Previously unknown &#8216;supercolony&#8217; of Ad&#233;lie penguins discovered in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 40 years, the total number of Ad\u00e9lie Penguins, one of the most common on the Antarctic Peninsula, has been steadily declining\u2014or so biologists have thought. A new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, is providing new insights on of this species of penguin. In a paper released on March 2nd in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists announced the discovery of a previously unknown &#8220;supercolony&#8221; of more than 1,500,000 Ad\u00e9lie Penguins in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula&#8217;s northern tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 40 years, the total number of Ad&eacute;lie Penguins, one of the most common on the Antarctic Peninsula, has been steadily declining&mdash;or so biologists have thought. A new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, is providing new insights on of this species of penguin. In a paper released on March 2nd in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists announced the discovery of a previously unknown &#8220;supercolony&#8221; of more than 1,500,000 Ad&eacute;lie Penguins in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula&#8217;s northern tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447055,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447054\/revisions\/447055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}