The researchers compared genetic diversity in modern and ancient populations of emperor penguins in Antarctica and gathered pivotal data on their breeding and foraging patterns during the last Ice ...

“Before this fossil, we had no evidence about the feathers, colours and flipper shapes of ancient penguins,” said Julia Clarke, a palaeontologist at the University of Texas, US, and lead ...

“Modern penguins seem to be less well equipped to survive these rapid environmental changes than ancient penguins because of this decrease in evolutionary rate,” Vanesa De Pietri, an avian ...

An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white buddies by bucking the tuxedo trend with an entirely black body.