By Anne W. Semmes

Perhaps, in the old days paleontologists would just tell their boss they’re heading out to the field, the desert, the Arctic, with donkeys and supplies, and return in a few months with their fossil discoveries. But Dr. Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum, has his hands full with building natural history collections and creating intriguing exhibitions. Yet he is still managing by long distance to participate in bird fossil discoveries. He’s now reached in his 18year career the total of 73 “peer-reviewed” fossil discoveries, and today it is a penguin again, with its skull dating back three million years, found crushed in rocks at the foot of a cliff on the southwest coast of New Zealand’s North Island.

It’s not the largest penguin like that five-foot pl

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