Ancient monster penguins in New Zealand, as tall as humans, had doppelgangers in US?

Studies have found that huge ‘monster penguins’, which are believed to have lived in New Zealand 62 million years ago, had doppelgangers. It has been found that those doppelgangers of monster penguins roamed in US. scientific term for doppelganger is plotopterids.

Monster Penguins' doppelganger found miles and million years apart

Paul Scofield, a Canterbury Museum curator in New Zealand, revealed more details about same to a media portal. Paul told media portal that plotopterids evolved in different hemispheres, millions of years apart. However, y must have looked so similar that from a distance it would have been very tough to tell m apart.

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A media portal reported that plotopterids looked like penguins and swam like penguins. Reportedly, plotopterids probably even ate like penguins. However, y were t penguins.

Reportedly, remains of earliest kwn penguins were found in Waipara, rth Canterbury in modern-day New Zealand. earliest kwn remains of penguins are believed to be 5-feet-tall. Scientists believe that se ancient penguins thrived in tropical seas that once surrounded that location.

According to new study, Plotopterids are reported to have lived at a later date of 37 to 34 million years ago. ancient birds were so similar despite having lived miles away and millions of years apart. This intrigued scientists to conduct research on both types of birds.

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Reportedly, both types of bird had long beaks with stril slits. y are also reported to have had similar wings, chest, and shoulder bones. Vanessa De Pietri, ar curator at Canterbury Museum told a media portal some interesting facts about two birds.

She told portal that remarkable thing is that plotopterids and ancient penguins is that two evolved independently but shared features. She furr told portal that it is an example of what scientists call convergent evolution. Convergent evolution is when distantly related organisms develop similar morphological traits under similar environmental conditions.

A media portal reported that although plotopterids would have looked very similar to giant penguins, a deeper analysis showed that y were actually more closely related to modern-day birds such as gannets and cormorants.

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