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Human-sized penguin used to live in New Zealand, new find suggests

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Human-sized penguin used to live in New Zealand, new find suggests

August 16, 2019 - 12:56 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand, the BBC reports.

The fossilised bones are of an animal thought to have been about 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall, weighing up to 80kg (176lb).

It lived in the Paleocene Epoch, between 66 and 56 million years ago.

The animal, dubbed "monster penguin" by Canterbury Museum, adds to the list of now-extinct gigantic New Zealand fauna. Parrots, eagles, burrowing bats and the moa, a 3.6m-tall bird, also feature.

"This is one o...

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