Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early evolution of penguins. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

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It’s a common mix-up in pop culture: people imagine polar bears and penguins sharing icy landscapes. Yet, in reality, penguins never live in the Arctic. They are found exclusively in the Southern ...

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Discover the newly identified southeastern gentoo penguin, a species long hidden in the Kerguelen Islands, revealing secrets ...

Gentoo penguins photographed on Greenwich Island, Antarctica, in 2025. Whether Gentoo penguins constitute a single species or ...

Three small fossil penguin bones, collected in South Canterbury in 1987, are now shedding new light on how penguin wings have evolved. A new study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New ...

The eco-evolutionary history of penguins is characterised by shifting from temperate to cold environments. Breeding in Antarctica, the Emperor penguin appears as an extreme outcome of this process, ...

Scientists have identified a new penguin species for the first time in over a century. The discovery of the southeastern ...