Newser
By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Sep 17, 2021 9:20 AM CDT
(NEWSER) – The Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club lived up to its name—its school-aged members are credited with discovering a new species of giant penguin. The discovery of the fossil actually occurred back in 2006 in New Zealand, but researchers didn’t identify the new species until this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The giant penguin identified as Kairuku waewaeroa lived about 30 million years ago, and the second word in that description translates to “long legs,” reports the Guardian.