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New Zealand Kids Discovered This Fossil of New Giant Penguin Species on a Field Trip
Paleontologists say the bird would have been roughly the size of a ten-year-old child
Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, September 17, 202

 

Children's Field Trip Yields New Penguin Species
Kairuku waewaeroa lived eons ago in New Zealand
John Johnson, Newser, Sep 17, 2021

 

The open access paper is:

 

Simone Giovanardi, Daniel T. Ksepka & Daniel B. Thomas, 2021.

A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from the North Island of New Zealand

Article: e1953047 Received 15 Mar 2021, Accepted 01 Jul 2021,

Published online: 16 Sep 2021

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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Ah I remember seeing something in the news about this some time ago. That is a very large bird indeed! 
It makes you wonder what animals never fossilised therefore we will never know about.... or what is fossilised but we will never know about it due to inaccessibility. 

 

Also.... New Zealand. Home to absolutely no scary animals, ever.

No deadly arachnids, reptiles, mammals or insects and a bunch of birds that can't even fly.

The scariest fish is the occasional shark and the Barracouta (Thyrsites atun)

I did see a terrifying Skink (about 3" long) this afternoon haha.

 

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