Everything about Waimanu totally explained
Waimanu was a
genus of early
penguin which lived soon after the
Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, lending support to the theory that the radiation of modern birds took place before the extinction of the dinosaurs, not after as others had proposed. While it was a very early member of the
sphenisciformes,
Waimanu was flightless (like all modern members of its order). Though its wing bones don't show the extreme specializations modern penguins have for an aquatic lifestyle, it does seem adapted for wing-propelled diving, and may have resembled a flightless
loon.
Discovered in
Canterbury, New Zealand riverbed sediments (near the
Waipara River) of the
Waipara Greensand Formation in 1980, the name
Waimanu comes from
Māori for "waterbird". Two species are known,
W. manneringi from the
Middle Paleocene and
W. tuatahi from the
Late Paleocene.
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