Enjoy Your Nightmare: Penguins were once taller than us

So if your dreams are full of strange things like wolves, sinking ships, or, in Heidi’s case, John Oates, here’s something else to add to the growing list of pink elephants bouncing about inside your brain: Penguins used to be as tall as humans.

Want to know what that would look like? Wonder no more. The find was made by an amateur paleontologist in New Zealand.

We now return to your regularly scheduled nightmare, involving being naked in a supermarket, trying to take a test you forgot to study for.

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