'The new species is one of the largest fossil penguins described so far and one of the very few giant penguins,' said researcher Gerald Mayr.
one of the largest species of penguin ever known to have existed and means it is comfortably bigger than today's emperor penguins, which stand at around 3.9 feet in height.
Love found the leg bones of a single individual—as well as some possible wing bones—which Mayr and his team used to identify the penguin as a new species. "The new species is one of the largest fossil penguin species described so far and one of the very few giant penguins, which is represented by a partial skeleton. Certainly, it was a flightless species with flipper-like wings, which already attained the upright stance characteristic of modern penguins. Unlike most modern penguins, however, it lived in a warm, subtropical environment.
"When the Crossvallia species were alive, New Zealand and Antarctica were very different from today—Antarctica was covered in forest and both had much warmer climates," Paul Scofield, an author of the study from the Canterbury Museum, said in a statement.is the"oldest well-represented giant penguin." The fact that two giant penguin species have been found from the Paleocene epoch suggests that these animals grew to large sizes early on in their evolutionary history.
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