Three million years ago, an extinct relative of todays's great penguins — emperors and kings — lived in Aotearoa New Zealand. We know this because our new study describes a spectacular fossilized ...
Skull of Eudyptula wilsonae n. sp., specimen NMNZ S.048854, presented alongside a skull from Eudyptula m. minor Forster, Reference Forster1781, specimen NMNZ S.000863 ...
Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of penguin. They say the penguins were giant, weighing in around 170... Fossil Of Human-Sized Penguin Found In New Zealand ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some ancient penguins may have been twice as big as today's Emperor penguin but they lacked the dashing tuxedo. Researchers unearthed remains of a nearly 5-foot-tall penguin that ...
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 ...
Today, penguins are found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. But fossils have revealed giant lookalikes to these swimming ...
What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...
Lazzie hatched at Cincinnati Zoo in 2000. She became the first little penguin born there. The zoo now holds North America’s ...
The fossil skull (top) of the extinct great penguin in its estimated original shape, in comparison with skulls from a king penguin (middle) and an emperor penguin (bottom). (Image credit: CC BY-NC-ND) ...