The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand. The fossilised bones are of an animal thought to have been about 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall, weighing up to 80kg ...

Also called little blue or fairy penguins, these birds are found in Australia and New Zealand. The colony on Philip Island is home to a popular Penguin Parade that attracts thousands of visitors ...

Snares penguin parents take it in turns to look after their young. The Snares islands are the holy grail of New Zealand wildlife destinations- they were never settled by humans and miraculously ...

The tiny bird, angry at the indignity of being transported in a cat box, was found starving and malnourished at a penguin colony on Helps’ property, where the population has fallen dramatically ...

Still far off the tourist trail, the likes of Macquarie, Campbell, Bounty and Snares are pristine wildernesses best explored by cruise For a long time in the great white world of polar bragging ...

Jordan passed the penguin to another registered wildlife rescuer, Lynne Amore, who drove from Bairnsdale to Melbourne on ...

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 ...

Two species of sub-Antarctic penguin have surprised scientists in New Zealand by travelling up to 15,000km during six months spent at sea. Researchers tagged 90 Rockhopper and Snares crested ...