A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey ...

If Graham’s ears were correct — honed by his profession as a Biodiversity ranger — then he knew he was hearing two creatures ...

Scientists have found the fossilized remains of a prehistoric giant penguin unlike any other deep in the craggy coastlines of New Zealand’s South Island. Named Kumimanu fordycei, this enormous seabird ...

Scientists unearthed a 57-million-year-old giant penguin in New Zealand that once ruled the seas This recently discovered species, Kumimanu fordycei, weighed 154 kilograms and is thought to have ...

Millions of years ago, several species of giant birds called "mega penguins" roamed the Earth — and some of them stood taller ...

They identified the bird—the only recorded species of giant petrel to have gone extinct—by studying a skull and an upper wing bone discovered on New Zealand’s North Island.

Archaeologists in New Zealand have recently uncovered nine new penguin specimens from the Paleocene Epoch, which occurred between 66 million years ago and 56 million years ago. Researchers have ...

The gigantic fossilized penguin bones discovered on the South Island of New Zealand are a "startling" find, scientists said.

Not much is known about the prehistoric giant penguins of New Zealand, and former club member Steffan Safey, who was 13 when the fossil was found, told The Guardian it's "sort of surreal to know ...

Decades later, their find has been identified as a newly discovered species of long-extinct giant penguin. The discovery was recently described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

During a fossil-hunting excursion in January 2006, members of the Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club came across a major discovery in Waikato, New Zealand, although it took years to fully understand ...

Students on a 2006 field trip in New Zealand found fossilized bones in sandstone. Turns out they found a new species of ancient giant penguins.