Fossils unearthed in New Zealand reveal Kumimanu fordycei, a giant penguin from the Paleocene epoch, weighing around 350 ...

This 350-pound penguin from 57 million years ago could outswim sharks, outweigh Shaq, and change everything we thought we ...

New landmark BBC series, features Dr Nizar Ibrahim and his work on the lost dinosaurs of the Sahara - including Spinosaurus, ...

New research suggests a distinct lineage of elephant seals were well established in New Zealand at the time of human arrival. Joint senior author Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, director of the ...

The iceberg is blocking a vast area of ocean that is an important feeding ground for macaroni penguins - South Georgia is home to one of the world's largest colonies. Image: Macaroni penguins are ...

The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with the British territory of South Georgia - potentially putting millions of penguins and seals in danger. The trillion-tonne slab of ice ...

On Feb. 8, 2023, Guinness World Records recognized the Kumimanu fordycei as the largest penguin to ever exist. However, incomplete fossils have made it difficult to pinpoint exactly how tall this ...

But without the students’ citizen science, our knowledge of the prehistoric world wouldn ... waewaeroa stood larger than an emperor penguin, the largest penguin species today.

Weighing in at more than 77 pounds and standing at almost four-feet tall, the Emperor Penguin earns its name and its title as the largest species of penguin ... In 2014, scientists discovered a ...

According to the Australian Antarctic Program, Gentoo penguins are the third largest living penguin species, with adults ranging in size from about 11 to 17.5 pounds. In comparison, emperor ...

Dinosaurs often steal the limelight when it comes to fossils, but other prehistoric critters ... described fossils belonging to the largest known species of penguins — Kumimanu fordycei, which ...

The title of the largest penguin ever documented goes to the ... Pachydyptes ponderosus is prehistoric giant that lived more recently than those already mentioned – around 37 to 34 million ...