At nearly 7 feet tall, the Colossus penguin, which waddled across Antarctica some 40 million years ago, stood twice as tall as Emperor penguins (pictured here). REUTERS/Martin Passingham ...

The latest findings have enabled researchers to conclude that the so-called 'colossus penguin' was bigger than any penguin that came before or after it. The species known as Palaeeudyptes ...

The unearthed bones dated back 37 million years and new studies show the species could have measured almost twice the height of ... While these colossus penguins are estimated to grow to about ...

Palaeeudyptes klekowskii has been dubbed the “colossus penguin”, and ... 0.2 metres above their standing height. Another extinct penguin used to hold the height record, at around 1.5 metres ...

Forget emperor penguins, say hello to the colossus penguin ... klekowskii was 2.01 meters long from beak tip to toes. Its height will have been somewhat less than its length owing to the way ...

That award goes to Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, dubbed the colossus penguin, which towered at 2 ... waewaeroa, stood at a height of around 1.4 metres and weighed around 80 kilograms.

but a mass of 115kg and the height of a human (2.01m, according to the researcher, Acosta Hospitaleche, is an estimate of size that experts have assessed for this phenomenal creature. Let's hope more ...

Based on the size of the bones, researchers believe the colossus was roughly 5'3" tall, and could stretch to 6'7" with its beak extended upward. At the time when it lived, there were more than a dozen ...

They are approximately 120cm tall (about the height of a six year old child ... Fossils recovered from the Antarctic Peninsula reveal that a colossus species of penguin which lived about 37 million ...

Palaeeudyptes klekowskii has already been dubbed the “colossus penguin”, and is the most ... It had a slightly smaller height of 1.5m.