Human sized 'penguin dopplegangers' roamed the US and Japan 40 million years ago
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mirror.co.ukMonster penguins that roamed New Zealand 62 million years ago had dopplegangers thousands of miles away in the northern hemisphere.
Paleontologists have long known about the hefty penguins of ancient New Zealand, which fossilised bones found in North Canterbury suggest stood at 1.5metres tall and weighed 80 kilograms.
Now evidence of a group of birds which lived in modern day USA, Canada and Japan have also been uncovered. The plotopterids had a striking resemblance in bone structure to the monster penguins, despite not actually being part of the same species.
Just like penguins the plotopterids used their wings to swim instead of fly and had long beaks with slit-like nostrils. Unlike penguins, the species became extinct 25 million years
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