Penguins first evolved almost 22 million years ago in Australia and New Zealand and NOT in Antarctica Researchers analysed the genomes of 18 different species of the aquatic birds They found penguins did not colonise the Antarctic until 2–9 million years ago Changes in the ocean current around Antarctica likely triggered this movement Penguins also adapted to … Read more
Penguins can fire their faeces out of their rectum with such power they reach more than FOUR FEET away, scientists find Penguins have a high ‘rectal pressure’ that can expel excrement some distance This lets them keep themselves and their nests from getting soiled with guano Experts from Japan calculated just how far Humboldt penguins … Read more
Five-foot-tall penguin-like birds that roamed the Northern Hemisphere 37 million years ago had ‘doppelgangers’ in New Zealand, bone fossils suggest. Plotopterids, an extinct family of flightless seabirds, had strikingly similar bone fragments to the ‘monster penguins’ that lived in New Zealand more than 60 million years ago. Although they existed at different times, both types … Read more
Supermarket juggernauts Iceland have adopted Chester Zoo’s whole rookery of Humboldt penguins in a bid to support the popular attraction which is facing an uncertain future. Chester Zoo launched a campaign last Wednesday as government coronavirus laws keeping zoos shut mean it could be closed ‘indefinitely’. The campaign has generated over £2million already and now supermarket … Read more
Culture vultures! Zoo penguins check out the art at a locked-down museum (and it turns out they prefer Caravaggio to Monet) Three Humboldt penguins visited the empty Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Kansas City Zoo birds missed seeing visitors and were taken on a day out The birds were said to prefer Italian artiest Caravaggio … Read more
This is flipping fun! Penguins are given a chance to explore Singapore zoo after lack of human contact left them bored Singapore State Zoo is closed to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic Penguin keepers decided to give the creatures a free run of the empty complex They were apparently unimpressed by the climbing frames … Read more
One of Britain’s oldest penguins will be serenaded with a ‘special birthday celebration’ from the confines of her zoo in honour of reaching the milestone age of 30. Rosie the Humboldt Penguin, who arrived to Sewerby Hall and Gardens, near the seaside town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1990, has left … Read more