The fossil was found in New Zealand, 19 million years old, and is the largest in the history of the parrot. "New Zealand is famous for its huge birds," a professor at Flinders University said in a statement. "But so far, no one has found a huge extinct parrot anywhere." Paleontologists at Flinders University and New Zealand's Canterbury Museum called the parrot Hercules Inexpatatus to show how powerful and large it is, as well as the unexpected nature of the discovery. The new parrot was found in excavations dating back 19 million years near the town of St. Pathans, which was once
Renowned for mining activity in Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand, where scientists have been digging fossil deposits for 20 years