Scientists have found the fossilized remains of a prehistoric giant penguin unlike any other deep in the craggy coastlines of ...

Emma Teni extracts venom from Sydney funnel-web spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, crucial for the national antivenom program. Public contributio ...

Fossils unearthed in New Zealand reveal Kumimanu fordycei, a giant penguin from the Paleocene epoch, weighing around 350 pounds. This discovery, publi ...

This 350-pound penguin from 57 million years ago could outswim sharks, outweigh Shaq, and change everything we thought we ...

Here, the Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club discovered what ... bird of its time, as New Zealand was once home to giant parrots, eagles, moa, and even bigger penguins. But without the students ...

"Given that the earliest giant New Zealand penguin fossils pre-date the occurrence of penguins ... in the Paleocene marine record of the Southern Hemisphere. While the discovery of K. fordycei has ...

Paleontologists have discovered gigantic fossilized penguin bones on the coast of New Zealand, according to a study published in the Journal of Paleontology. Only a few bones were found ...

Giant penguins once roamed the seas and beaches of New Zealand over 50 million years ago ... Our new species Kumimanu fordycei is the largest fossil penguin ever discovered.' Together, these birds ...

One of the new species is the largest penguin ever discovered ... Related: Kids discover giant penguin's fossil skeleton in New Zealand Previously, the largest penguin on record was Palaeeudyptes ...

Fossils found in New Zealand highlight an era after the dinosaurs when giant ... penguin known to science. Alan Tennyson, a paleontologist at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, discovered ...

Not much is known about the prehistoric giant penguins of New Zealand, and former club member ... told The Guardian it's "sort of surreal to know that a discovery we made as kids so many years ...

During a fossil-hunting excursion in January 2006, members of the Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club came across a major discovery in Waikato, New Zealand ... of an ancient giant penguin yet discovered.