Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery also ...

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

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 ...

Gentoo penguins photographed on Greenwich Island, Antarctica, in 2025. Whether Gentoo penguins constitute a single species or can be divided into several species has long been a puzzle for biologists.

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Scientists have identified a new penguin species for the first time in over a century using DNA analysis. A group of researchers, biologists and conservationists spanning five continents identified ...

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