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Pingwins
I for one bow down to our long deceased uber-penguin antipodean overlords...
Bone-bothering boffins have reconstructed a giant prehistoric penguin species from fossils that were first found in New Zealand in 1977. Two Kairuku penguins come ashore, passing a stranded Waipatia dolphin Artist's impression of Kairuku penguins. Credit: Chris Gaskin, Geology Museum, University of Otago Ewan Fordyce, a …
Emperor penguins are 4 feet tall so finding a "giant" species that was 4' 2" hardly deserves the moniker. I suspect it's a typo and the new one is 5 feet tall and according to discovery.com about 130 pounds.
...fossil casts of 2-meter tall, five-ridged, star-shaped, winged, plant/animal hybrid things in the vicinity?
(And there-- heard faintly in the background of the expedition's audio logs, barely discernible above the tape hiss, a high, shrill call carried by the wind: "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!")