Paleontologists have identified 50 million-year-old fossil bones found on a New Zealand beach as the remains of a super-sized early penguin species. These waddling water birds would have likely been about a metre and a half tall and weighed in at 150 kilograms.
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Senior Lecturer in Zoology and Ecology, Dr Daniel Thomas, is part of an international team describing two new extinct penguin species, with one suggested to be the largest ever discovered at an estimated average weight of 155 kilograms.