The most common terms for a group of penguins are waddle, raft, colony and rookery. Each describes a gathering of penguins in ...

Scientists just recognized a penguin species that had been hiding in plain sight for hundreds of thousands of years, and the ...

Gentoo penguins were secretly hiding four distinct species among them, and nobody knew about it until their DNA spilled the beans.

A new University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study reveals two vastly different life courses for one of Aotearoa New Zealand's least-studied penguin species.

With white bellies, dark backs and a distinctive light patch above their eyes, gentoo penguins might all look the same at first glance. But according to new research pulling together physical, ...

International researchers have taken an in-depth look at three Aotearoa New Zealand crested penguin species, revealing one is thriving while others face uncertain futures. Led by the Tawaki Project at ...