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A giant red penguin which waddled the earth more than 30 million years ago has been discovered by scientists. The bird would have dwarfed its black and white relatives today, standing at five foot tall - nearly twice the height of the Emperor penguin, the largest living species.
The 36-million year old fossil, discovered in Peru and nicknamed Pedro, has been named Inkayacu paracasensis - the Water King - and shows that the bird had reddish brown feathers, suggesting the distinctive 'tuxedo' markings of today's creatures are relatively recent. It also showed signs of what makes penguins such formidable swimmers - it sports radically modified feathers which are densely packed and stacked on top of each other, forming stiff, narrow flippers, and its body feathers had broad shafts to help streamline the body.
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