Another researcher, Gerald Mayr shared, "At the time giant penguins evolved, the large marine reptiles just had become extinct. In Antarctica and New Zealand, there were no large marine ...

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.

New Zealand is famous for having weather, which can be four seasons in one day, and we arrived to find ourselves in the midst of an unprecedented sub-Antarctic heat wave. Snares penguins have ...

Department of Conservation (DOC) rangers say they are "cautiously optimistic" about this Summer's breeding season for New Zealand's rarest bird. Fewer than 40 tara iti, or New Zealand fairy terns ...

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 ...