It would have been tough work trying to p-p-p-pick it up, as scientists say it weighed between 70kg and 80kg.
The bones were found by amateur palaeontologist Leigh Love at the Waipara Greensand fossil site in North Canterbury last year, and they were prepared for study by local fossil expert Al Mannering.
Its closest known relative is a another extinct type of penguin, the crossvallia unienwillia, which was identified from a fossilised partial skeleton found in the Cross Valley in Antarctica in 2000.Dr Scofield said the discoveries showed how closely connected New Zealand was to the icy continent. Dr Mayr said:"The fossils discovered there have made our understanding of penguin evolution a whole lot clearer.
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