Last updated on June 13th, 2012 at 04:50 pm
I just blogged about giant fleas in the Jurassic. Now, I’ve got to mention the giant Penguin that has just been reconstructed from fossils found in New Zealand. The penguin lived about 26 million years ago and does not look like any modern penguins. It was about 1.3 m tall (approximately 50 inches), and weighed about 60 kg (around 132 lbs), which is about 50% larger than the biggest modern penguins.
It also had vestigial wings, much larger than current day penguins, which might indicate an intermediate species between the common ancestor to all birds and the modern species. Based on its body shape, it probably could go deeper and faster than modern penguins.
via Giant prehistoric penguin is reconstructed in New Zealand | Science | guardian.co.uk.
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