16.12.2017
In this particular case, it's taken researchers about a decade to fully examine the fossilized remains found in New Zealand, which proved especially hard to extract from the tough rock. Initially, the visible bone looked too large for a penguin, so, given its age, they assumed it came from a turtle. But why was New Zealand a penguin paradise? It's almost as old as the very earliest known penguin fossils, which were much smaller, said Daniel Ksepka, curator at the Bruce Museum of Greenwich, ...