Fossils may reveal 20-million-year history of penguins in Australia

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Multiple dispersals of penguins reached Australia after the continent split from Antarctica, including 'giant penguins' that may have lived there after they went extinct elsewhere, according to a study published April 26, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Travis Park from Monash University, Australia, and colleagues.

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