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Weight check for first penguin born through artificial insemination

Reuters: Science - Posted: July 6th, 2016, 3:24pm UTC

OSAKA, Japan - The world's first penguin conceived through artificial insemination tipped the scales at a healthy 1,210 grams (2.6 lbs) on Wednesday in Japan, where scientists have been working for six years to develop technology to preserve the species.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=jri73HDQjao:hlOfrcEdcw4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=jri73HDQjao:hlOfrcEdcw4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=jri73HDQjao:hlOfrcEdcw4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=jri73HDQjao:hlOfrcEdcw4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=jri73HDQjao:hlOfrcEdcw4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/jri73HDQjao" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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