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New penguin found, 500 years after extinction
Written by msnbc.com: Environment   
11/19/2008

Australian and New Zealand researchers studying the rare and endangered yellow-eyed penguin (pictured here) have uncovered a previously unknown penguin species that disappeared about 500 years ago. The newly found "Waitaha" penguin became extinct after Polynesian settlement of New Zealand but before A.D. 1500.Read more...

 
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