Scientists have made a brand-new discovery of a penguin species after genetic analysis revealed an entirely new category of the animal.

Scientists just recognized a penguin species that had been hiding in plain sight for hundreds of thousands of years, and the ...

A penguin spreads its long wings beneath the transparent water surface, turning its face toward us from just nearby. The ...

The scientists provided genetic evidence that what was once thought to be one widely dispersed species is actually four separate species of gentoo penguin. One of these was previously unrecognized ...

A new penguin species has been identified for the first time in more than 100 years. Researchers have discovered that Gentoo penguins, previously thought to be a single species, h ...

Researchers have identified a brand new penguin, species - Pygoscelis kerguelensis also known as the southeastern gentoo. It lives on the remote Kerguelen Islands, around 1,200 miles north of ...

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Researchers were able to show that over hundreds of thousands of years, the gentoo penguin has diverged into four distinct evolutionary lineages.