the Emperor Penguin, grows to about 1.2m tall. "We think that at the time, animals were evolving very rapidly," Mr Scofield explained. "Water temperatures around New Zealand were ideal back then ...

Researchers working in New Zealand revealed today the discovery ... In fact, even the mighty Emperor penguin, which is the largest penguin walking the Earth today, only tops out at around 4 ...

Emperor penguins are large birds that stand around ... Later penguin ancestors are believed to have originated in New Zealand ...

The emperor penguin, dubbed Happy Feet, was released into the water from the New Zealand fisheries vessel Tangaroa near Campbell Island, about 700km south of New Zealand's South Island.

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

In New Zealand, prehistoric bones of the biggest ... That's twice as heavy and one foot taller than the emperor penguins — the largest penguins that are alive today. The discovery of these ...

Like the polar bear on the opposite pole, the emperor penguin endures almost unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter ...

Like the polar bear on the opposite pole, the emperor penguin endures almost unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter ...