New Zealand schoolchildren discover new species of giant penguin

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Washington DC (UPI) Sep 16, 2021

In 2006, a group of schoolchildren on a fossil-hunting field trip in New Zealand unearthed the bones of a giant penguin. Now, 15 years later, that flightless bird is getting a name, Kairuku waewaeroa. Researchers described the novel species of giant penguin in a new paper, published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Evolution. After the fossil penguin's discovery in Waikato,

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