“Many early fossil penguins attained enormous sizes, easily dwarfing the largest penguins alive today. “Our new species, Kumimanu fordycei, is the largest fossil penguin ever discovered—at ...

“Many early fossil penguins attained enormous sizes, easily dwarfing the largest penguins alive today,” says Dr Daniel Field, a University of Cambridge researcher who co-authored the description of ...

Scientists have discovered fossils of the largest penguin known to date, thought to have weighed between 148 and 160 kilograms (300 and 340 pounds).