Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration.
Reason: This "reconstruction" is entirely erroneous and should not be used. First, the animal in question was a far much heavier species (the plumpest known penguin species alive or extinct). Second, the color pattern is adopted 1:1 from Aptenodytes, which is a spheniscine genus; most spheniscines lack such coloration (i.e. it is an autapomorphy of Aptenodytes). Pachydyptes was a palaeeudyptine and thus almost certainly looked less than Aptenodytes than any living penguin does. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 02:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of Wikiproject Palaeontology on the English Wikipedia. Note that this image may be appropriate to illustrate obsolete paleontological views.
תקציר
תיאורPachydyptes ponderosus.jpg
English: A reconstruction of New Zealand Giant Penguins (Pachydyptes ponderosus)
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Kuhnert; Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Kuhnert; Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Kuhnert; Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert; wilhelm kuhnert; wilh. kuhnert; w. kuhnert
זוהי תמונה מרוטשת, זאת אומרת שהתמונה שונתה בצורה דיגיטלית מהמקור. Modifications: Restoration. השינוי בוצע על ידי Citron.
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היוצר נפטר בשנת 1926, לכן יצירה זו נמצאת בנחלת הכלל במדינת המקור ובמדינות אחרות בהם תקופת זכויות היוצרים היא משך חיי היוצר ו-95 שנה (או פחות) מפטירתו.
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