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Published: 2007-09-16 16:51:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 2006; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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Icadyptes salasi, a giant penguin that roamed Peru about 35 millions years ago. It has about 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, one of the largest penguins ever described. The specimen that lacks the darker coloration is supposed to be a juvenile, even if it looks a bit too big to still be young..
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Me alegra ver mas dibujos de estos pinguinos, yo he visto el material y soy muy amigo de los autores peruanos....les hare llegar los links.
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Good to see you like it! Great to know you know the the authors! Hope someday I can meet the names that follow the scientific names! Gracias!
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Cool, mega penguin! I wouldn't want to piss one of them off. 
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Thanks! It may be one, I didn't defined the sex of the specimens.
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I'm not sure, it family is Incertae sedis.
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Were there any Paleocene penguins in Peru?
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I think no, the oldest I know from there is Perudyptes devriesi, from 42 millions years ago, of the size of the modern King Penguin.
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Right, that's from the Early Eocene...
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The oldest penguins come fom the Paleocene of Antarctica (Crossvallia) and New Zealand (Waimanu). In South America the oldest record are the Eocene penguins of Peru and one possible penguin from the Eocene of Tierra del Fuego.
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The other South American penguins resembled Icadyptes?
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No....the neogene penguins are more similar to modern penguins. Some like Paraptenodytes or Arthrodytes are possible more "primitive"....but all are more derived than Icadyptes or Perudyptes
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