“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 ...

A fossil of a penguin that lived in Otago millions of years ago has shed light on the evolution of penguins. It has been named the Pakudyptes Hakataramea. Researchers say the penguin was very ...

The study, by Dr. Julia Clarke of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers.” ...

Living 24 million years ago, Pakudyptes, a relatively tiny penguin, already had adaptions in its bone structure meant for ...

Scientists examining the fossil determined that the bird lived around 27 to 34 million years ago, far after the dinosaurs had gone extinct. This new species resembled other ancient penguin remains ...

The fossils were originally discovered ... An illustration showing the size of the two new ancient species compared to a modern emperor penguin on the right The team decided the name the huge ...

"Then, for 30 million years, it was the time of the giant penguins," Mr Scofield said. Ancient parrot was 1m tall and possibly carnivorous Ruffled feathers over fossil bird find Baby bird fossil ...

In fact, a recent discovery has led scientists to conclude that all modern-day penguins likely descended from Zealandia's ancient birds. The newly identified fossils of an extinct penguin species ...

It joins a 61-million-year-old giant penguin found recently in ... But the delicate fossil held in these vials shows that an ancient mousebird, Tsidiiyazhi abini, lived in what’s now New Mexico ...

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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 ...

Using that genetic data and the existing penguin fossil record, researchers compared ... They found that penguins evolved in response to ancient climate shifts, making their bodies uniquely ...