For more than a century, gentoo penguins were treated as a single, widely distributed species spread across the Southern Ocean. New genomic research says that's wrong — there are actually four separate species, including one that had never been formally described before, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The new species, named Pygoscelis kerguelensis and dubbed the … [Read more...] about Scientists Just Named The First New Penguin Species In More Than 100 Years — And It Was Hiding In Plain Sight
