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

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

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Gentoo penguins were secretly hiding four distinct species among them, and nobody knew about it until their DNA spilled the ...

Researchers used DNA analysis to identify a new gentoo penguin species in the remote Kerguelen Islands.

A penguin that looked like its gentoo neighbors has been hiding a major secret on the remote Kerguelen Islands. Scientis ...

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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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DNA reveals the gentoo penguin is four species, including one new one, with three sub-Antarctic species at risk from climate change.

Zavodovski, a volcanic island in Antarctica, is silently witnessing a shift in the local ecosystem. Known as home to the ...