A Human-Sized Penguin Once Waddled Through New Zealand
by Brigit Katz Smithsonian.com
Last week, the world was introduced to “Squawkzilla,” a hulking ancient parrot that made its home in New Zealand some 19 million years ago. Now, the country’s roster of extinct bulky birds—which includes the massive moa and the huge Haast’s eagle—has grown even larger, with the discovery of a Paleocene-era penguin that stood as tall as a human.
The ancient avian came to light thanks to an amateur palaeontologist named Leigh Love, who found the bird’s leg bones last year at the Waipara Greensand fossil site in North Canterbury. The Waipara Greensand is a hotbed for penguin remains dating back to the Paleocene, which spanned from 65.5 to 55.8 million years ago; four other Paleocene penguin species have been discovered there. But the newly unearthed fossils represent “one of the largest penguin species ever found,” Paul Scofield, co-author of a new report in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology and senior curator at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, tells the BBC.
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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A penguin was driving his car down the road,as they do,and his car started making a funny noise.
He pulled over to a garage to check with the mechanic whats wrong. Mechanic says it will take a little while to see over the car, in the meantime why don’t you go across the road and get yourself an ice-cream from the 711.
Because the little fellow had no arms as such he had ice cream running down his beak face etc.
Returning to the mechanic, he tells the penguin, “looks like you have blown a seal”, No no replied the penguin, “That’s only ice cream”
HAGD
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Thks Carol, I used to live many years ago, about 30 miles from Waipara, North Canterbury.
Could the expanding Earth theory possibly be real? The Earth was smaller, the continents all connected, during the age of dinosaurs, with less gravity, hence much larger creatures.
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