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Out now, breaking research of a new species of ancient penguin🐧discovered by children from a natural history group in NZ😮

Kairuku waewaeroa was a giant penguin with long legs, for fast swimming and deep diving, say experts 👇
https://t.co/9iPCv7j5uR

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2021-09-16

The Kairuku is an extinct genus of penguin. They were big.

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2021-07-04

Squalodon, a large predatory dolphin from the Oligocene, may have had a taste for penguin flesh. This Kairuku is unfortunately on the menu.

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2020-10-27

My submission at Concurso Internacional de Ilustraçao de Dinossauros. I wanted to depict a group of Kairuku grebneffi, swimming alongside to Megalampris keyesi. A snapshot from a submerged New Zealand of the Oligocene.

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2019-06-27