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KELOWNA, British Columbia, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvel mania has reached all the way to Club Penguin Island, the #1 virtual world for kids, as penguins assemble for the Marvel Super Hero Takeover, an epic online event starting June 14th through July 3rd. A meteor has hit the island of Club Penguin, powering up the dangerous Destructobot. Players can choose to suit up as one of 14 Marvel Super Heroes or Super-Villains, including Avengers characters such as Iron Man,...
NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Penguin Group announces the launch of the global Licensing and Consumer Products division at the 2012 International Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, NV. As a leading publisher of diverse and engaging brands, Penguin offers licensing opportunities on every page. Penguin's beloved and recognizable book series and characters reflect a company that has been telling great stories for over 75 years and is also a prime source of...
NEW YORK, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- In partnership with major publishers including Penguin and HarperCollins, as well as Perseus and O'Reilly Media, Citia is reinventing the reading experience by turning digital books into fast-moving, shareable, 3D reading experiences. A new app making its debut on the iPad, Citia transforms serious nonfiction books, optimizing them for digital devices and giving them social skills traditional eBooks can't match....
NEW YORK, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a groundbreaking marriage of book publishing and technology, Penguin Group (USA) has partnered with digital publisher Citia to introduce a series of interactive, shareable nonfiction works, starting with Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants. The Citia edition will be available for $9.99 in the App Store for the iPad 2 and iPad 3. "Penguin has always looked for new ways to serve both writers and readers," says Susan Petersen...
KELOWNA, British Columbia, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Club Penguin is celebrating Earth Month this year with the launch of new activities allowing players to learn through role play about endangered species and declining habitats. These in-world activities align with the real-world environmental efforts Club Penguin supports - allowing kids to impact social change through play. Now - April 25th players can dress up as endangered species such as Rockhopper Penguins, Andean Cats,...
Thanks to new technology, a study reveals there to be twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than had previously been estimated. The study will be used as a benchmark to understand the effects climate change is having on these flightless birds. Published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, an international team of scientists reports how they used a Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images to estimate the size of the emperor penguin communities. In order to distinguish the birds...
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Penguin Group (USA) announced today that A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness is the March pick for The Penguin Twitter Book Club. Penguin will lead regular discussions with book club members during the month of March. In early April, when the book club has finished reading A Discovery of Witches, the author Deborah Harkness will join the discussion in an hour-long live Twitter chat. The Penguin Twitter Book Club kicked off in...
A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their "anti-freeze" proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed polar conditions – and how today they are endangered by a rapid rise in ocean temperatures. "A rise of 2 degrees centigrade of water temperature will likely have a devastating impact on this Antarctic fish lineage, which is so well adapted to water at freezing temperatures," said Thomas Near, associate...
iOS users from the ages of 1 to 100 can now meet a 3D Virtual Peepo the Penguin, in the stunningly animated and richly interactive Happy Talking Penguin app, built by SiXiTS - some of the best and brightest minds in the new media industry. Novato, CA (PRWEB) February 03, 2012 iOS users looking to have some fun with an interactive penguin of their own can find all they desire with SiXiTS Happy Talking Penguin, the charming, animated and interactive new 3D virtual character app, featuring...
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ace Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), today announced the signing of a new urban fantasy series by a writer discovered on Bookcountry.com, Penguin's nine-month-old online genre fiction workshopping community. The two-book deal marks the first acquisition from the site since the Book Country community launched in May of 2011. BETWEEN, by debut novelist Kerry Schafer, was discovered by Susan Allison, Vice President, Editorial Director...
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At 30 inches (75 centimeters), the flightless Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was the largest of the auks. It was hunted for food, as well as for down for mattresses, from at least the 8th century. It is classified as the only species in the genus Pinguinus. It was also known as "garefowl", from the Old Norse geirfugl, or "penguin". Before hunted to extinction, the Great Auk could be found in great numbers on islands off eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Great Britain....
The Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the largest of all penguins and is the only penguin that breeds at the height of winter in Antarctica. Emperor Penguins eat mainly crustaceans (such as krill) but will also occasionally indulge in small fish and squid. In the wild, Emperor Penguins typically live for 20 years, but some records indicate a maximum lifespan of around 40 years. (The Emperor Penguin should not be confused with the King Penguin or the Royal Penguin.) Behaviors...
