Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The newly recognized southeastern gentoo penguin species was named in an April 2026 report published in a biological sciences ...

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

A single, familiar-looking bird has turned out to be four separate species. Researchers led by UC Berkeley’s Rauri Bowie and the University of Chile’s Juliana Vianna and Elie Poulin have named a ...

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

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 ...