The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand. The fossilised bones are of an animal thought to have been about 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall, weighing up to 80kg ...

A sushi stand owner in New Zealand called in the police to deal with unexpected non-paying customers in the form of little blue penguins. The owners found the pair of seabirds hiding under their ...

The first little blue penguins affected by the Rena oil spill were released back into the wild at Mount Maunganui on Tuesday, after several weeks of recovery and care by WWF staff and other members of ...

Today, we know the tiny fraction of it that remains above the waves as New Zealand. But before most of Zealandia disappeared — about 60 million years ago — ancient penguins walked upon the 2 ...

Snares penguin parents take it in turns to look after their young. The Snares islands are the holy grail of New Zealand wildlife destinations- they were never settled by humans and miraculously ...

Charlotte Cook reporting for Radio New Zealand, says climate change is likely responsible for the deaths of more than 500 penguins since May with numbers of dying birds continuing to climb.

In 2019 she teamed up with colleagues in New Zealand and the USA, and using ancient DNA and morphology, described two recently extinct penguins from New Zealand fossil records. Her research ...

Two species of sub-Antarctic penguin have surprised scientists in New Zealand by travelling up to 15,000km during six months spent at sea. Researchers tagged 90 Rockhopper and Snares crested ...

Fossils of a human sized penguin have been discovered along the banks of a river in New Zealand. This is the biggest penguin species to ever have existed reaching the height of an average human of ...

WELLINGTON: It's noisy, smelly, shy - and New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fiercely fought avian election on Monday (Sept 16), offering hope ...

A rare, smelly and yellow-eyed penguin species has been crowned New Zealand’s bird of the year for the second time in less ...