The giant penguin, which stood 5 feet 3 inches tall, is the latest member of a growing cast of massive fauna that used to call the island nation home.
A team of researchers from the Canterbury Museum discovered Crossvallia waiparensis after studying fossils found in Waipara, near the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's south island, according to a press release.The giant penguin, which stood 1.6 meters tall, is the latest member of a growing cast of massive fauna that used to call the island nation home. These include the world's biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
Ancient Europeans lived alongside a half-ton bird nearly 12 feet tallAccording to researchers, the giant penguin's closest relative is another Paleocene species, Crossvallia unienwillia, and this second discovery provides further evidence that early penguins were massive."It further reinforces our theory that penguins attained a giant size very early in their evolution," said Vanesa De Pietri of the Canterbury Museum.
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