{"id":790120,"date":"2026-10-02T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790120\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:28:31","slug":"new-gentoo-penguin-species-discovered-by-us-and-chilean-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790120\/","title":{"rendered":"New gentoo penguin species discovered by US and Chilean experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the researchers, the different species developed over the past 300,000 to 500,000 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gentoos differ from other penguin species mainly due to their wide-ranging diet, and will eat almost anything they can catch in the water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This makes it easier for them to survive than penguins like emperors and Adelies, with more specific diets, who can struggle to find food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists argue that this is why gentoos evolved differently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because they don&#8217;t travel far from their breeding colony, and nest in the same place year after year, different populations developed who adapted to their specific regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the researchers, the different species developed over the past 300,000 to 500,000 years. Gentoos differ from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-790120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}