The fossil belongs to an ancestor of modern emperor and king penguins, who once lived in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Today, great penguins are limited to subantarctic islands and the coast of Antarctica (map on the left). But ancient New Zealand was home to an extinct species of great penguin around three million ...
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 ...
In the arid expanse of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, scientists have unearthed a rare dinosaur fossil that challenges what we ...