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

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

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

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

Researchers used DNA analysis to identify a new gentoo penguin species in the remote Kerguelen Islands.

The new species of gentoo penguin lives on the Kerguelen Islands in the subantarctic region ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rare find in the southern Indian Ocean has excited penguin specialists, but concerns remain about the effects of a ...

By Victor Block The next time you visit a zoo and see emperor penguins, take a good look. Unfortunately, the tallest and ...

Researchers were able to show that over hundreds of thousands of years, the gentoo penguin has diverged into four distinct evolutionary lineages.