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Ancient Penguin Weighed 130 Pounds
Discovery News ^
| February 27, 2012
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 02/28/2012 7:26:26 PM PST by EveningStar
The tallest and heaviest ever known penguin stood nearly 5 feet tall and tipped the scales at around 130 pounds, according to a 27-million-year-old fossil found in New Zealand.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: fossil; godsgravesglyphs; newzealand; penguin
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To: EveningStar
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02/28/2012 7:29:47 PM PST
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
and they didn’t even have high fructose corn syrup back then.
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posted on
02/28/2012 7:35:05 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: EveningStar
H.P. Lovecraft was right all along?
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posted on
02/28/2012 7:35:56 PM PST
by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/28/2012 7:37:28 PM PST
by
Rocky
(REPEAL IT!)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/28/2012 7:44:05 PM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: EveningStar
Are they sure it’s not a nun?
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02/28/2012 7:51:29 PM PST
by
o-n-money
To: EveningStar
For it was only a penguin - albeit of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known king penguins, and monstrous in its combined albinism and virtual eyelessness.” HPL
Freegards
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posted on
02/28/2012 8:01:48 PM PST
by
Ransomed
To: EveningStar
I wonder if they were delicious, you could of fed lots of people with one of those honking big penguins. They would of been incredible to behold like many of the giant creatures that used to exist. I always wanted to see the giant beavers.
To: dog breath
When I was young and first in the Navy I saw a few giant beavers..........oh....wait Never mind.
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02/28/2012 8:07:13 PM PST
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W. W. SMITH
(Obama is Romney lite)
To: SunkenCiv
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02/28/2012 8:15:41 PM PST
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FrogMom
(There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: EveningStar
And then Man made global warming caused the penguin to shrink.
To: FrogMom; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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02/29/2012 4:33:25 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: EveningStar
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02/29/2012 4:36:12 AM PST
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Hot Tabasco
(The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
To: EveningStar
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02/29/2012 4:46:11 AM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
To: W. W. SMITH
-——I wonder if they were delicious,——
They taste like mergansers
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02/29/2012 4:54:16 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
To: EveningStar
Uh-oh. They’re on the verge of discovering the ancestor of the Killer Penguins!
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:03:14 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: EveningStar
Let's see if this works:
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:50:41 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: dog breath
I always wanted to see the giant beavers. Must. Not. Post. Image.
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02/29/2012 7:30:05 AM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1134 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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