A new University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study reveals two vastly different life courses for one of Aotearoa New ...

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

Scientists have made a brand-new discovery of a penguin species after genetic analysis revealed an entirely new category of the animal.

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

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, ...

Researchers have identified a brand new penguin, species - Pygoscelis kerguelensis also known as the southeastern gentoo. It lives on the remote Kerguelen Islands, around 1,200 miles north of ...

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 ...

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A new species of penguin has been discovered for the first time in 100 years, according to a study. Researchers found evidence that the gentoo penguin actually consists of four different species and ...

When you think of the penguin, the image that pops to mind is usually the fuzzy bird waddling through snow or swimming in frigid Antarctic waters. But penguins didn’t originate in Antarctica, as ...