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The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed
- willew793 4y ago[flagged]
- haspoken 4y agohttps://archive.is/AaTEO https://archive.is/AaTEO
- anonreeeeplor 4y agoYou are my hero. The guy who is the only comment on the article I want to read.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoTo become your own hero, use duckduckgo and !ais https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/science/giant-penguin-fossil.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/science/giant-penguin-fos...
- threads2 4y agothanks, I didnt even think that this could be one of those ddg flags. big m! fan btw
- thaumasiotes 4y agoYou can just go to archive.is directly.
- teruakohatu 4y agoIf I remember correctly there were a number of giant penguins here in New Zealand along with the world's largest bird, the Moa, and the world's largest eagle which preyed on the moa.
- mkl 4y agoMoa were the tallest known birds (though probably mostly kept their heads down), but elephant birds of Madagascar and Dromornis stirtoni of Australia were more than twice as heavy as well as quite tall.
- klyrs 4y ago> “Once you know you’re not flying anymore,” Dr. Ksepka said, “the sky’s the limit.” Truly.
- rob74 4y agoPenguins still fly, they just fly through water instead of air - if you look at a video of a penguin swimming, the motion is exactly the same as flying, it's just the wings that have adapted to the denser medium.
- soggylaundry 4y agomaybe... fishes are birds of water?
- dhosek 4y ago5'2"? what about the fifty foot penguin with electric tentacles?
- bone_frequency 4y agoI don't get it
- dhosek 4y agoOh sorry, it was only twenty feet. http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode23.htm http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode23.htm
- clarionbell 4y agoTekeli-li!
- signaru 4y agoIt would have been nice if the artist drew a human alongside the penguins being compared.
- pleb_nz 4y agoIf you look carefully there is a banana for scale
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- rob74 4y agoOthers have: https://wp.usatodaysports.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2019/08/penguin.jpg https://wp.usatodaysports.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/20... - ok, this cheats a bit, because it uses a king penguin instead the larger emperor penguin...
- bombcar 4y agoI like how the art implies that the average woman also annoys these very large penguins.
- azubinski 4y agoSomething Strange Is Happening on the Sun, and We've Never Seen It Before: The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed !
- akdor1154 4y agoTangential: there were a bunch of big birds around shortly after 65mya (these penguins, terror birds in the americas, hell Australia still has the cassowary) . These are always understood to be modern-bird-like but bigger, not dinosaur-like. Is this really known to be the case? Maybe equivalently - are these big birds known to have evolved from tiny birds (yes birds-are-dinosaurs, look past it) that survived the 65mya cataclysm? Or instead could they just be big dinosaurs that survived? Is the marked distinction between therapods < 65mya and 65mya < birds really backed by evidence, or is at least some of it down to our preconceptions of what animals in these two eras looked like?
- josh_fyi 4y agoH.P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness", 1931 describes these creatures from an ancient civilization in Antartica, millions of years ago: a "penguin... of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known king penguins, and monstrous in its combined albinism and virtual eyelessness." Lovecraft was inspired by scientific expeditions to Antarctica that were in the news at the time, but the ancient, giant penguins are all his... https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx
- remarkEon 4y agoI read this every couple years and it's a terrifying read every single time.