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Penguins + is a great place for conversation, contemplation and debating on a variety of topics as unique and diverse as its members. As an added bonus, it's also a great resource for penguin-related awesomeness. ^v^

Blog highlights:
Species of Penguins
Survival of the Penguins
Exposing Penguin Stereotyping by the Media
Penguins on the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console
Lala the Shopping Penguin From Japan

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Ancient Penguins help advance science

Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.
http://www.physorg.com/news177083943.html

Flying penguins found by BBC programme

I knew, I knew penguins could fly and here is proof! :D Our phenomenally-successful April Fool story, done in association with the BBC. "Viewers will see the penguins not only take flight from the Antarctic wastes, but fly thousands of miles to the Amazonian rainforest to find winter sun." penguin http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/pictures-of-the-year/3708854/Pictures-of-the-year-weird-news.html?image=12

Penguins in Santa Costume

This article gets a thumbs up by the Brits and Koreans , not knowing the circumstances of how the penguins are treated, you decide! Penguins clad in Santa Claus costumes entertain a group of children at an amusement park in Yongin, Gyoenggi Province, South Korea. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/3724760/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-12-December-2008.html?image=18

Happy Holidays!

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This is the time of year you see happy twinkling lights. Here is a photo of one display in Granada, Spain. I was going to post a picture of the penguin in my front yard, but this one is more impressive! ^v^

Penguin Bento!

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Most of you are probably familiar with the adorable Japanese lunch boxes known as bento. In a bento box presentation is often as important as flavor and adorable features abound! Here are some I came across online with penguins. They were so cute, I had to share! I'll try making my own penguin bento in the future and pass the photos along. If any of you make any cute penguin materials please don't hesitate to post them!


Bentos like these with dark nori (dried seaweed) placed over the rice are easy to make and you can cut the nori into limitless shapes so the possibilities are endless! You can see more bentos by this artist at cookingcute.com!

The following bentos are by various artists:








This non-edible felt bento is for sale on Etsy.com.

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