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The African penguin is a species of penguin confined to the southern African waters of South Africa and Namibia. As the only penguin species breeding in Africa, it is uniquely adapted to temperate climates rather than the freezing environments typical of other penguins. Recognizable by its black-and...
The Galápagos penguin is a small penguin species endemic to Ecuador's Galápagos Islands. It is the only penguin species whose natural range extends into the Northern Hemisphere, although most individuals occur south of the equator, particularly around Isabela and Fernandina. Its tropical distributio...
A South American banded penguin named after explorer Ferdinand Magellan, whose 1520 expedition was the first to record the species scientifically.
A South American penguin named after the cold Humboldt Current along whose Pacific coastal upwelling it forages, listed as Vulnerable due to fishery and climate pressures.
Extinct banded penguin from Miocene deposits of Peru, closely related to living Spheniscus species such as the Humboldt and Magellanic penguins.
Extinct banded penguin from Chile, known from Neogene deposits and among the fossil relatives of the living Humboldt penguin along the Pacific coast.
Extinct banded penguin from Miocene deposits of Peru and Chile, part of a fossil Spheniscus radiation along the Pacific South American coast.
