Antarctic penguin DNA to give clues to how to cope with climate change

Canberra, Oct 14 (ANI): A new research has determined that DNA in the bones of Adelie penguins that survived the last ice age are helping to shed light on how other animals will cope with climate change.
Adelie penguins have been surviving extreme climate change in Antarctica for hundreds and thousands of years.
According to a report by ABC News, evolutionary biologist Professor David Lambert of Griffith University in Brisbane and colleagues carried out the analysis of Adelie penguin DNA dating back to 37,000 years.
“Adelie penguins are a wonderful model to study the problem of climate change,” said Lambert. “They have lived through temperature fluctuations much higher than those in equatorial regions,” he added.
Lambert said that Adelie penguins have survived 10 degree Celsius of warming since the last glacial maximum 18,000 years ago.
He expects them to have been around 120,000 years earlier than that, during the peak of the ice age before last.