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Dagger beaks and strong wings: new fossils rewrite the penguin story and affirm NZ as a cradle of their evolution
Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early evolution of penguins. We know Antarctica was home to at least ten species, ...
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Scientists discover a new penguin species that was hiding in plain sight for over a century
An unknown penguin species has been quietly living for hundreds of thousands of years on a chain of islands so isolated they are known in French as the Desolation Islands. The birds are virtually ...
Four new fossil species from New Zealand illustrate the striking diversity of the earliest penguins, which possessed long, dagger-like beaks they may have used to skewer prey. The new discoveries ...
The image of a penguin might bring to mind an endless march across windswept ice. The reality of penguins is a bit different, says Grant Ballard of Point Blue Conservation Science. GRANT BALLARD: ...
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