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Argentine paleontologists from the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province have discovered fossils of giant 2-metre tall penguins that lived in Antarctica 34 million years ago. It is the largest penguin discovered to date in terms of height and body mass.
Two giant fossil penguins have been found in New Zealand:
Two new species of "giant" fossil penguin from New Zealand - Kairuku grebneffi and Kairuku waitaki - shed important new light on the biology of early penguins.
Everything was bigger back in the day. Big Wombats. Big everything. Sometimes I think it might be cool if everything was big again, but I know we'd just harvest all the giant animals for their meat.
[Edited on 12.13.2012 9:03 AM PST]