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Waitaha Penguin
Ancient DNA helped identify the Waitaha penguin, Megadyptes waitaha, as an extinct New Zealand species described in 2008. It belonged to the same genus as the living yellow-eyed penguin, rather than to the crested penguin group. Genetic evidence from old bones showed that mainland New Zealand's peng...
apps Top Waitaha Penguin Alternatives
The top alternative to Waitaha Penguin in 2026 is Yellow-eyed Penguin with a score of 7.96/10, followed by Kumimanu fordycei (7.18) and Eudyptes atatu (7.08).
Yellow-eyed Penguin
Known in Māori as hoiho, the yellow-eyed penguin is native to New Zealand's South Island and subantarctic islands. Pale...
Kumimanu fordycei
Kumimanu fordycei is an extinct species of giant penguin that lived during the Paleocene epoch in what is now New Zealan...
Eudyptes atatu
Eudyptes atatu is an extinct species of crested penguin whose fossils were discovered in New Zealand and formally descri...
Waimanu manneringi
Waimanu manneringi is an extinct species of early penguin known from Paleocene fossils in New Zealand. It lived roughly...
Kumimanu biceae
Kumimanu biceae is an extinct giant penguin known from Paleocene fossil remains found in New Zealand. It was described a...
Platydyptes marplesi
Platydyptes marplesi is an extinct species of penguin from the Late Oligocene fossil record of New Zealand. It belongs t...
Kairuku waewaeroa
Kairuku waewaeroa is an extinct species of giant penguin known from Oligocene rocks in the Waikato region of New Zealand...
Marplesornis novaezealandiae
Extinct fossil penguin from New Zealand named after palaeontologist Bryan Marples, who made foundational contributions t...
Kairuku grebneffi
Kairuku grebneffi is an extinct species of giant penguin known from Oligocene fossils in New Zealand. It lived about 27...
Petradyptes stonehousei
Extinct late-Oligocene penguin from New Zealand named in honour of ornithologist Bernard Stonehouse and known from fragm...
Kairuku waitaki
Kairuku waitaki is an extinct penguin species from the Oligocene deposits of the Waitaki region on New Zealand’s South I...
Crossvallia waiparensis
Crossvallia waiparensis is an extinct giant penguin from the Late Paleocene of New Zealand. Fossil material was found ne...
Megadyptes waitaha
Megadyptes waitaha is an extinct species of penguin from New Zealand and a close relative of the living yellow-eyed peng...
Pachydyptes ponderosus
Pachydyptes ponderosus is an extinct species of giant penguin known from Eocene rocks in New Zealand. Fossil evidence an...
Palaeeudyptes antarcticus
Palaeeudyptes antarcticus is an extinct penguin from Eocene fossil deposits in New Zealand. It was among the early fossi...
Aptenodytes ridgeni
Aptenodytes ridgeni, or Ridgen's penguin, is an extinct penguin known from fossil material in North Canterbury, New Zeal...
Sequiwaimanu rosieae
Sequiwaimanu rosieae is an extinct early penguin described from a well-preserved partial skeleton in the mid-Paleocene W...
Palaeeudyptes marplesi
Palaeeudyptes marplesi is an extinct, large penguin known from the late Eocene Burnside Mudstone near Dunedin in New Zea...
Archaeospheniscus lowei
Archaeospheniscus lowei is an extinct penguin species and the type species of the genus Archaeospheniscus. It lived duri...
Archaeospheniscus wimani
Archaeospheniscus wimani is an extinct penguin species known from Eocene rocks of the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Isl...
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