Sentence examples for penguin eggs from inspiring English sources

The design was egg-inspired, but no penguin eggs appeared.

Their sledge contained a precious cargo: three emperor penguin eggs, the first ever collected.

Henry Bowers, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Bill Wilson took 35 days to collect three emperor penguin eggs in July 1911.

They are emperor penguin eggs, a fragile reminder of an audacious egg hunt that became known as "the worst journey in the world".

The species breeds along the Antarctic coast and sometimes feeds on penguin eggs and chicks; it tends to be more pelagic when away from colonies, feeding on fish and pirating meals from other seabirds.

The film is by John Downer, who is known for finding whimsical ways to deploy cameras, and some of its images come from cameras placed in animatronic penguins, fake penguin eggs or phony rocks.

Suppose someone steps on a penguin egg in Antarctica?" But what happens if we as human beings don't understand the importance of polar regions?

One of the 25 new Treasures in the Natural History Museum is an Emperor Penguin egg, collected on the 1910-12 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica led by Captain Scott.

There is more than a touch of the absurd – the core of the narrative focuses on a perilous trek in search of a penguin egg – and in many ways Cherry-Garrard's entirely needless suffering foreshadows that slouching towards Europe in the guise of the first world war.

15.7% of the weight of an emperor penguin egg is shell; like those of other penguin species, the shell is relatively thick, which minimises risk of breakage.

The book narrates a pitch-dark winter march in appalling conditions he made with two companions (both of whom later died with Scott on the return from the push for the Pole) to obtain an Emperor Penguin egg from a remote colony at Cape Crozier on Ross Island.