evening standard NUMBER august NUMBER deft use of fortean unit of measurement in NUMBERnd para ma lost penguins found alive by charles miranda a colony of emperor penguins which was thought to have starved to death in antarctica has been found alive in a big huddle the birds were spotted by the crew of a usaf jet returning to base in new zealand researchers had feared that a breakaway iceberg the size of jamaica had all but wiped out the colony at cape crozier on ross island thousands of chicks are believed to have died as an increase in sea ice made it impossible for the adults to find food a detailed count is planned in october antarctica new zealand chief executive lou sanson said the penguins were in a big huddle we can now hope that the emperors have had a successful breeding season over the winter some NUMBER NUMBER pairs of emperors the largest penguins in the world at NUMBER NUMBERft tall and NUMBERlb usually nest at cape crozier NUMBER miles from the us mcmurdo research station the NUMBER NUMBER strong adelie penguin colony which also nests at the cape may have lost up to third of its population yahoo groups sponsor NUMBER dvds free s p join now URL to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 