(NEW YORK) — Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slightly shorter in ...

This illustration provided by the Canterbury Museum, shows the approximate height of a giant penguin, a "crossvallia waiparensis" next to a human being. AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Scientists in New ...

A penguin more than 5 feet tall and weighing as much as 176 pounds once roamed parts of the Earth millions of years ago, according to New Zealand scientists. >> Read more trending news An amateur ...

A fossil discovery has added another entry to the list of comically large New Zealand birds: a 5-foot-tall penguin. Just last week, we reported that researchers found fossil evidence of a child-size ...

Today’s adorable penguins waddle across kids’ cartoons as comic relief. The cute cold-weather bird is a pitchman for everything from vodka to hockey. But in ancient times, you wouldn’t want meet one ...

The ancestor would dwarf the emperor penguin, the biggest living penguin. — -- Giant penguins, standing over 5 feet tall and weighing more than 220 pounds, may have roamed Earth some 60 million ...

The remains of a human-size "monster" penguin have been discovered in New Zealand, scientists announced Wednesday. The newly found species, Crossvallia waiparensis, is from the Paleocene Epoch — ...