Meet the first new penguin species in over a century — it waddles in from the Kerguelens

Scientists have named Pygoscelis kerguelensis — the first new penguin species described in more than a hundred years — a delightfully absurd twist for a bird family everyone assumed was fully catalogued. The gentoo-like penguin breeds on the remote Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Somewhere between the ice and the waves, evolution was quietly keeping a secret.