The discovery indicates that crested penguins have lived in New Zealand for millions of years. Based on this and other findings, researchers believe all modern-day penguins evolved from ancient ...

The oldest known crested penguin fossils found in New ... date back 3 million years and indicate a previously unknown ancient penguin species. And where penguin species now have wider beaks ...

The term crested penguin is the common name given collectively ... of fossil discoveries connecting living seabirds to their ancient relatives.' 'Atatu' is the Maori word for dawn - marking ...

Dawn references the fact that this species is the beginning of our knowledge for crested penguins in New Zealand” Dr Thomas says. The research is detailed further in a paper titled Ancient crested ...

The fossil was found to actually comprise bones of three living penguin species, including the Snares crested penguin ... “This study shows how useful ancient DNA testing can be," Tess Cole ...

"In our study, we applied ancient DNA methods to genetically ... scientists warn The misidentified bones belong to three penguin species: Fiordland crested penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus; the ...

By analysing the genetic relationships of species, and using ancient fossil penguins to ... also confirmed that a now extinct, unique crested penguin species existed on the Chatham Islands until ...

The ancient animals are related to today’s ... creating marked differences from the famed Emperor, King or Crested penguins that have become movie stars today. The earlier penguins had narrower ...

A team of researchers from New Zealand and the U.S. is reporting on the discovery of unearthed 3.36-million-year-old crested penguin fossils ... Analysis of ancient DNA of a mysterious extinct ...

The ancient animals are related to today’s ... creating marked differences from the famed Emperor, King and Crested penguins that have become movie stars today. The earlier penguins had narrower ...

On the Antipodes Islands in the South Pacific, researchers observed a strange parenting move in erect-crested penguins — laying an egg that’s doomed to die. By Darren Incorvaia In 1998 ...

Ancient faeces from prehistoric burials on ... U.S. is reporting on the discovery of unearthed 3.36-million-year-old crested penguin fossils found on New Zealand's North Island.