H.P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness", 1931 describes these creatures from an ancient civilization in Antartica, millions of years ago: a "penguin... of

H.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