The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it's usually bad news for species that depend on each other – like flowers blooming too early and pollinating bees arriving too late. But researchers have found the rare critter that's getting a boost from the change: king penguins.
A new study of 19,000 king penguins in a sub-Antarctic island chain found their breeding is starting 19 days earlier than it did in 2000. Mating earlier has increased the breeding success rate by 40 per cent, according to a study in the 11 March journal Science Advances.
