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African penguins: Climate refugees from a distant past?

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Imagine the view from the western coastline of southern Africa during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) over twenty thousand years ago: in the distance you would see at least fifteen large islands — the largest 300 square kilometers in area — swarming with hundreds of millions of marine birds and penguin colonies.

Source: ScienceDaily.com