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The first wings on Earth may have evolved from the feet of an ancient, flightless crustacean. Today, modern crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crayfish are sometimes called sea bugs, and as part of the arthropod family – marked by strong body armor and split joints – the name makes no sense. …

A new fossil discovery has revealed that New Zealand’s ancient monster penguins were not the only human-sized flightless birds that roamed our planet tens of millions of years ago. Recent findings in North America and Japan suggest that giant creatures like penguins also spread throughout the northern hemisphere. And these …