Embryology of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)

• Published in: Nature
• Main Author: Glenister, T.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1953
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bowers; Crozier; Cape Crozier; Cherry-Garrard; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526985/; https://doi.org/10.1038/171357b0

E. A. Wilson1 wrote in 1907, “The possibility that we have in the Emperor penguin the nearest approach to a primitive form not only of a penguin but of a bird, makes the future working out of its embryology a matter of the greatest possible importance”. With this aim in mind he set out on June 27, 1...