Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early evolution of penguins. We know Antarctica was home to at least ten species, ...

Analysis have shown how ancient bird bones can act as "chemical archives" of changing weather conditions in Antarctica.

A team of paleontologists from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island off the Antarctic Peninsula have demonstrated how ancient bird bones can act as ...

An extinct penguin that lived in New Zealand 27 million years ago may have been the tallest ever. At 1.3 metres in height, Kairuku grebneffi would have looked down on today’s 1-metre-tall emperor ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Scientists in New Zealand said Wednesday they’ve found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans ...

NEW YORK-Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slightly shorter in length ...

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand. We know this because our new study published in the Journal of Paleontology ...

THE world was an unfamiliar place 62 million years ago when Waimanu waddled along the New Zealand shore and slipped smoothly into the ocean. The dinosaurs had been dead for just a few million years ...

WELLINGTON - The fossilized remains of a huge penguin almost the size of an adult human have been found in New Zealand's South Island, scientists announced Wednesday. The giant waddling sea bird stood ...

NEW YORK – Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slightly shorter in ...