According to sources from Climate Concern Group (CCG), an organization focusing on Climate Change issues, one of the first direct evolutionary responses to climate change has been observed in a species of penguin.
A shrinking Antarctic ice shelf, a result of increasing global temperatures, has lead to a lack of breeding of sites and difficulty in finding food.
In response to these pressures a population of Adelie Penguins has rapidly evolved and reacquired the ability to fly.
Film footage of this amazing development has been captured for the first time and the ornithological world has come together to highlight the dangers of climate change.
And all this happened on the first of April, just in time for the summer breeding season.
By Xuefei Chen People's Daily Online Correspondent in Stockholm
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