[Rockhounds] New Zealand Kids Discovered Fossil of New Giant Penguin Species on a Field Trip

[Paul]

New Zealand Kids Discovered This Fossil of New Giant Penguin Species on 
a Field Trip
Paleontologists say the bird would have been roughly the size of a 
ten-year-old child
Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, September 17, 2021
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kids-discover-fossil-of-new-giant-penguin-species-180978707/

Children's Field Trip Yields New Penguin Species
Kairuku waewaeroa lived eons ago in New Zealand
John Johnson, Newser, Sep 17, 2021
https://www.newser.com/story/311148/schoolkids-discover-new-species-of-penguin.html

The open access paper is:

Simone Giovanardi, Daniel T. Ksepka & Daniel B.
Thomas, 2021. A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from
the North Island of New Zealand Article: e1953047
Received 15 Mar 2021, Accepted 01 Jul 2021, Published online: 16 Sep 2021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2021.1953047

Yours,

Paul H.