The Longtime Cover-up of Penguin Sex
On March 29, 1912, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott wrote the final diary entry of his ill-fated quest to reach the South Pole. That same day, more than 350 kilometers away, naval surgeon and zoologist George Murray Levick was hunkered down within a snowbank at Cape Adare, observing Adlie penguins.Levick had accompanied Scott to Antarctica, but was not one of the five expedition members on the final trek to the pole.