King Penguins Could be Extinct by End of Century The report comes from a study published Monday in Nature
Climate Change, which states that warmer Arctic seas are forcing the penguins to migrate further from their nests on the islands near Antarctica. According to the University of Ferrara in Italy, 70 percent of the 1.6 million breeding pairs of king penguins could be affected in this century. Emiliano Trucchi, evolutionary biologist at the University of Ferrara The penguins, which feed on fish and krill in the Arctic waters, will have to travel further to their feeding grounds, leaving their hungry chicks for longer. King Penguins are currently the
second-largest species
of penguins in the world.