A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone — it took scientists 15 years to name what the children had actually dug out: a new species of giant penguin, 1.4 metres tall, that swam over the Waikato as much as 34 million years ago
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A children's fossil hunt on a New Zealand beach uncovered what looked like a boat propeller—until scientists realized they were staring at the remains of a towering penguin that vanished 34 million years ago.
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