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Ancient Monster Penguin is Largest Discovered and Weighed as Much as a Gorilla

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I don't know if anyone remembers that old advert 'pick up a penguin' referring to the chocolate bar ?

Well this was one penguin you would never have been able to pick up

It came from New Zealand, was around about 57 million years ago and It weighed as much as a gorilla

Imagine how much fish it must have consumed

And lets hope it didn't skate on thin ice

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www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/largest-penguin-ever-discovered-160kg-29233525

telmel
a year ago
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MelissaLee1

If they cast him in Happy Feet he'd break of an entire ice shelf

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telmel

MelissaLee1 Yep , those feet wouldn't be so happy then lol, nice video

I suppose being a big penguin has its advantages Image

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telmel

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Imnotcheap

Fish was probably bigger then too. Hopefully the ice was also thicker to keep it up.

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telmel

Imnotcheap Thats true I

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BonzoBanana

New Zealand had some crazy animals in the past and many of them co-existed with the timeline of humans. Haast's Eagle was one of them.

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telmel

That's one heavy bird at 230 kg B

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