The fossil belongs to an ancestor of modern emperor and king penguins, who once lived in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Members of the Pinamar Ecological Foundation made a surprising discovery on a beach south of Buenos Aires last August. Standing in the sand was an injured king penguin, the species closest to emperor ...

Close relatives of emperor penguins lived in New Zealand some 3 million years ago. What caused their extinction?

On a beach in southern New Zealand, a creature thousands of miles from home made a rare stop. Irene Wright McClatchy News The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled by ...

The emperor penguin is the heaviest and largest of the penguin species and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’s Red List as near threatened. Reasons ...

Emperor penguins are a well-known species found only in Antarctica. These resilient creatures can survive even the harshest winters, relying on sea ice for foraging and breeding. However, due to ...

We know this because our new study describes a spectacular fossilised skull of a great penguin found on the Taranaki coast. Overall, it is 31% longer than the skull of an emperor penguin (Aptenodytes ...

At a distance, an oil drum looks quite a bit like a penguin. Well, not that much like a penguin, but if you’re short-sighted and live in a world in which anything that isn’t white is either a rock or ...

Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica may be declining faster than the most pessimistic predictions, scientists said after analyzing satellite images of a key part of the continent. The images, ...