Tag: Rockaronis

• Thursday, June 19th 2025 - 09:40 UTC

  What about a new species of penguins, the Rockaronis, a cross between Rockhopper and Macaroni

  

  The docuseries “Secrets of the Penguins” from National Geographic captured footage of several rare penguin chicks for the very first time. Their parents are a mixed-species couple: a rockhopper mother and a macaroni penguin father. The resulting chicks, called “rockaronis” successfully hatched and appeared to be healthy and thriving so writes Jenifeer Geer for IFL Science.