Emperor penguins are large birds that stand around ... and waterproof feathers and a thick layer of blubber under their skin.

Capt. Riiser-Larsen’s radio continued: “We have been putting [seal] blubber under our boilers, and our success has been amazing. And now we are going to make a trial with penguin carcasses ...

the penguins are losing weight and, eventually, they’re either starving to death or succumbing to hypothermia because they don’t have enough blubber to stay warm. “They’re just skin and ...