Imagine a human-sized penguin. That might not be far-fetched: A recent fossil find in Antarctica sheds light on an ancient species of penguin that measured at least 6 feet tall and weighed around 250 pounds.
Scientists from the La Plata Museum in Argentina have been excavating deposits on an island off the Antarctic peninsula that's rife with ancient penguin fossils. In the most complete skeletal find from the region they uncovered about a dozen bones from a prehistoric bird that would have spanned about 6.6 feet from beak to feet. The bird, Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, lived around 37 to 40 million years ago.
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Did they have long, green tentacles that sting people? wow!
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