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 ...

In fact, some died out many millennia ago. Scientists in New Zealand discovered the bones of two species of giant penguins that would have roamed the area some 50 million years ago. The Kumimanu ...

The country's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean – takes travellers on a 315km journey into the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A noisy, smelly, and shy penguin has won New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fiercely fought avian election on Monday, offering hope to ...

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 ...

A rare, smelly and yellow-eyed penguin species has been crowned New Zealand’s bird of the year for the second time in less than a decade. The hoiho, which translates as “noise shouter” in ...