
Three million years ago, an extinct relative of todays’s great penguins – emperors and kings – lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We know this because our new study describes a spectacular fossilised skull of a great penguin found on the Taranaki coast.

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of todays’s great penguins – emperors and kings – lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We know this because our new study describes a spectacular fossilised skull of a great penguin found on the Taranaki coast.