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Named &#8220;crossvallia waiparensis&#8221;, it hunted off New Zealand&#8217;s coast in the Paleocene era, 66-56 million years ago. An amateur fossil hunter found leg bones belonging to the bird last year and it was confirmed as a new species in research published this week in &#8220;Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossilised remains of a huge penguin almost the size of an adult human have been found in New Zealand&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A new species of giant penguin has been identified from fossils - 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