Engineers working in the Antarctic p-p-p-pick up new team member
Alan Cox, from Lincolnshire, says the gentoo penguin is very interested in his team's excavator.
...that just escaped from the ruins of the Norwegian station.
If people have not read the novella that film (and the 1950s film) was based upon, Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr., I highly recommend it.
Here are a couple of options if you don't want a proper eBook or physical book. The first is a straight scan, the second is a bit easier on the eyes.
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Adding to this, here is the story from an alternative perspective: