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A large extinct penguin has been reconstructed from fossil remains discovered in New Zealand.
Researchers used bones from two separate examples of the ancient birds, using the skeleton of a modern king penguin as a guide.
They show the 25 million-year-old Kairuku penguin was tall at 1.2m (4ft 2in), with an elongated beak and large flippers.
The team's work appears in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
The reconstruction shows that the Kairuku penguin was easily the largest of the five species that were common to New Zealand during the Oligocene time period.
The efforts were partly inspired by the bird's unusual body shape, which is different from any other known penguin, living or extinct.
A large extinct penguin has been reconstructed from fossil remains discovered in New Zealand.
Researchers used bones from two separate examples of the ancient birds, using the skeleton of a modern king penguin as a guide.
They show the 25 million-year-old Kairuku penguin was tall at 1.2m (4ft 2in), with an elongated beak and large flippers.
The team's work appears in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
The reconstruction shows that the Kairuku penguin was easily the largest of the five species that were common to New Zealand during the Oligocene time period.
The efforts were partly inspired by the bird's unusual body shape, which is different from any other known penguin, living or extinct.
