A mega-penguin stood tall on prodigious limbs

In 2006, school kids in New Zealand discovered the fossilized remains of a penguin the size of a ten-year-old child. The giant bird turns out to be a new species of penguin that, thanks to its long legs, was taller than any of its modern relatives¹.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02562-y

Subjects

• Palaeontology