Satellite images show emperor penguins 'double'

13 April 2012 Last updated at 18:14 ET Help

An international team of scientists has been using high resolution satellite images from space to count penguins.

They have found that there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica as previously thought.

It is the first time that an entire species has been tracked from space.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

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