Etymology

Ridgen's penguin

Today it means: An extinct species of penguin (†Aptenodytes ridgeni), from New Zealand during the Pliocene epoch. Full definition →

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The story

The remains were found in 1968 by schoolboy Alan Ridgen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.