You probably know the gentoo penguin, even if you don’t know it by name. It’s the one with the bright orange bill and the white patch across its head. For generations, scientists treated it as one single species. A new study says there are actually four, and one of them has been hiding on a remote island all this time. It’s the first new penguin species named in more than a century!
More info: vcresearch.berkeley.edu | nature.com
