Penguin chicks miraculously survive tearaway iceberg

For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.

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Like a door shutting, the iceberg's huge walls sealed off the Halley Bay colony from the sea.

It seemed to spell the end for hundreds of newly-hatched fluffy chicks whose mothers, out hunting for food, may no longer have been able to reach them.

Then, a few weeks ago, the iceberg shifted and got on the move again.

Scientists have now discovered that the tenacious penguins found a way to beat the colossal iceberg - satellite pictures seen exclusively by BBC News this week show life in the colony.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wp4qnljd1o

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