{"id":498826,"date":"2026-03-02T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:22:07","slug":"for-antarctic-penguins-molting-can-now-be-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498826\/","title":{"rendered":"For Antarctic Penguins, Molting Can Now Be Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Emperor penguins can&#8217;t skip their annual wardrobe change, and that may now be killing them. A new study finds the birds&#8217; once-routine full-body molt has turned into a high-stakes gamble as Antarctic sea ice rapidly retreats. <\/p>\n<p>  Adult emperors must park on stable sea ice for 30 to 40 days each year while they shed and regrow their uniquely insulating, waterproof feathers, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c204626888zo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>. During that stretch, they burn up to half their body weight and are effectively grounded, without food. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Emperor penguins can&#8217;t skip their annual wardrobe change, and that may now be killing them. A new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[9348,4253,21595,94509,42629,6733,162872,4696,15550,79,67495,201],"class_list":["post-498826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-antarctica","tag-climate-change","tag-discoveries","tag-emperor-penguins","tag-extinction","tag-global-warming","tag-ice-melt","tag-penguin","tag-penguins","tag-science","tag-sea-ice","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}