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Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster
ViacomCBS received more than half a dozen inquiries from interested buyers, including financial firms and the French media giant Vivendi, which holds a minority stake in Hachette through the publisher Lagardère. The top three contenders were Bertelsmann, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns HarperCollins, and Vivendi. News that Bertelsmann was close to a deal was …
Stirling pupils’ penguin project pays off after new colony discovered
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Bird of the Year: Rare anti-social penguin wins New Zealand poll
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The hoiho won with 12,022 out of the 43,460 votes cast and verified An endangered yellow-eyed penguin has won New Zealand’s coveted Bird of the Year competition after two weeks of intense campaigning. The hoiho saw off more than five rivals to become the first penguin to win the …
Endangered hoiho penguin wins New Zealand’s bird of the year poll | World news
An antisocial penguin that communicates by screaming has won New Zealand’s hotly contested bird of the year poll. But the victory of the hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, has served to underscore the threat to its existence: it received more votes than there are hoiho remaining on the planet. The birds are charismatic and gorgeous, “a …
Climate change: Emperor penguin ‘needs greater protection’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Phil Trathan: “Emperors are iconic. I think people can relate to them.” Antarctica’s Emperor penguins could be in real difficulty come 2100 if the climate warms as expected. Experts say the birds raise their young on sea-ice and if this platform is greatly curtailed, as the …
One of world’s oldest bird species found at same Canterbury site as monster penguin
supplied Paul Scofield and amateur palaeontologist Leigh Love examine a section of river bank on the Waipara River, near where the Protodontopteryx fossil was found. One of the world’s oldest bird species has been discovered at the same North Canterbury site a monster penguin fossil was found. Bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithids), an ancient family of huge seafaring birds, …
‘Human-sized penguin’ lived in New Zealand
Image copyright Canterbury Museum Image caption The enormous penguin, as reconstructed by Canterbury Museum The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand. The fossilised bones are of an animal thought to have been about 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall, weighing up to 80kg (176lb). It lived in …
