A group of international researchers announced the discovery of what may have been the largest penguin ever to have lived.
, calculating a regression using flipper bone dimensions to predict weight. Kumimanu fordycei weighed around 340 pounds.
A cast of Kumimanu’s humerus, left, created from 3-D scans, alongside a humerus of an emperor penguin. "A bigger penguin could capture larger prey, and more importantly it would have been better at conserving body temperature in cold waters. It is possible their size allowed the earliest penguins to spread from New Zealand to other parts of the world," Daniel Ksepka, lead author and a paleontologist at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, said in a statement.
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