🐧 🇫🇷 🇦🇶 Scientists Identify New Penguin Species for the First Time in More Than 100 Years

Researchers discovered a new gentoo penguin species, Pygoscelis kerguelensis, living on the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean

This is the first new penguin species identified in over 100 years, with the last being the northern rockhopper penguin in 1921

There are four different species of gentoo penguins, which all have genetic differences, but Pygoscelis kerguelensis was previously unknown to scientists

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