In the Antarctic island of Seymour Argentine scientists found a giant penguin. Weight penguin was about 115 kg, and a growth rate of 2 meters. On our planet such birds lived about 40 million years ago, ITAR-TASS reported.
As the head of Carolina Acosta Ospitaleche works in the history of science, this finding has no precedent. The well-preserved remains of a giant penguin reach record sizes are still five-foot bird was considered the largest instance of ancient penguin. Compared with the pre-historic ancestors have survived animals in the course of evolution is strongly crushed. Today, the growth of the largest of the existing species of penguin barely reaches 1.4 meters, weight – up to 46 kg.
Discovered view was named Palaeeudyptes klekowskii. If we follow the results of previous studies, at a time when this part of the earth was inhabited by giant penguins, Antarctic climate was similar to modern California. By the way, according to BFM, archaeologists are not going to dwell on this, but will look for other remains of prehistoric birds.
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