| Kairuku Temporal range: Late Oligocene | |
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| An artist's illustration of Kairuku waitaki | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Family: | Spheniscidae |
| Genus: | †Kairuku Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Kairuku waitaki Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 | |
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Kairuku is an extinct genus of giant penguin. It contains two species, Kairuku grebneffi and Kairuku waitaki. This taxon is known from bones from 27 MYA (late Oligocene), from the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.
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Ark: Survival Evolved Kairuku
- Kairuku is one of the creatures that appears in ARK: Survival Evolved.
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