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Waimanu manningeri - The world’s oldest penguin fossil which lived in Waipara, North Canterbury 60 million years ago. Sophisticated medical imaging software was used to scan the fossil skull of the ancient penguin, found in 2003 and now in Canterbury Museum’s collections, to investigate how losing the power of flight impacted on the anatomy of its brain.
Read the feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/life-on-the-edge/
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 143 January-February 2017.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2016.
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LIFE ON THE EDGE
Waimanu manningeri - The world’s oldest penguin fossil which lived in Waipara, North Canterbury 60 million years ago. Sophisticated medical imaging software was used to scan the fossil skull of the ancient penguin, found in 2003 and now in Canterbury Museum’s collections, to investigate how losing the power of flight impacted on the anatomy of its brain.<br /> Read the feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/life-on-the-edge/<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 143 January-February 2017.<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2016.