ancient penguins

The team estimates, at a height of 1.77m and weighs more than 100kg, this is the world's largest penguin species and lived about 55-60 million years ago.

Experts from the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand and the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt are currently studying the fossil skeleton believed to be the lower limb of that giant

The giant penguin that lived 40 million years ago is about the size of the emperor penguin, with a height of about 2m from the foot to the nose.