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, ...

In the arid expanse of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, scientists have unearthed a rare dinosaur fossil that challenges what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Resembling a strange blend of penguin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four new fossil species from New Zealand illustrate the striking diversity of the earliest penguins, which possessed long, dagger-like beaks they may have used to skewer prey. The new discoveries ...

Phylogenetic studies of penguin evolution integrate molecular, genomic, morphological and palaeontological data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of Sphenisciformes. Analyses combining DNA from ...