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Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) atop rock beside sea (Getty Images/David Madison)

Microplastics reach Galápagos penguins

Matthew Rozsa
A southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) bull with its females on the beach at the largest King penguin colony in the world, which is located in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia Island, sub-Antarctica. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Flu kills hundreds of elephant seals

Matthew Rozsa
A Chinstrap penguin keeps watch over the colony from his prominent look-out spot on an Antarctic rock. (Getty Images/Fiona McAllister Photography)

These penguins sleep for mere seconds

Matthew Rozsa
Gentoo Penguin and Skua on Cuverville Island in Antarctica (Getty Images/Mark Edward Harris)

Bird flu hits Antarctica

Matthew Rozsa
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Grey-Headed Flying Fox (Getty Images/Jamie Lamb)

Impending climate change extinctions

Matthew Rozsa
Emperor Penguins in Antarctica (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The great threat emperor penguins face

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

March to extinction

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
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How to celebrate Penguin Day

Gary M. Kramer
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(AP/Silvia Izquierdo)

The destructive lie of zoos

Randy Malamud
(Armin Rose/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Mogens Trolle/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams

Emily Lodish - GlobalPost
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Prachi Gupta
(underworld/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Warner Brothers)

Katie Halper - Alternet
Humboldt penguin (Christian Colista/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Chicks in their downy plumage seek company and shade under a shrub as they wait for their parents to return and feed them. (Dee Boersma/U of Washington)

Lindsay Abrams
Penguins at SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas (Steven Ringler/Shutterstock)

SeaWorld's penguin debacle

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
(G Adventures)

Colin Lecher - Popular Science
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"A bad day for Antarctica"

Lindsay Abrams
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