Researchers have recently reconstructed the fossils of the 25 million Kairuku penguin in New Zealand.
"Kairuku was an elegant bird by penguin standards, with a slender body and long flippers, but short, thick legs and feet," said co-author Dr. Dan Ksepka, from North Carolina State University, US.
"If we had done a reconstruction by extrapolating from the length of its flippers, it would have stood over 6ft tall. In reality, Kairuku was around 4ft 2ins tall or so."
Researchers have published their findings in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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