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Picture of a desert beach in Peru
June 30, 2021

Desert Beach

Peruvian scientists found fossils of giant penguins on this desert beach in Paracas, Peru. The discoveries, documented in the February 2008 issue, suggest that the birds would have been five feet tall and tolerant of a hot climate.
Photograph by Julia A. Clarke, Nat Geo Image Collection

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