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Nov 1, 2012 · The fossil record of penguins began to improve in the late 1970s, when one of us (Fordyce) came across a broken leg bone poking out of a sandstone cliff face near Waimate in southern New Zealand....
Jul 19, 2022 · The study, published today (19 July 2022) in Nature Communications, is the first comprehensive genetic study involving extinct and extant (living) penguin species. The study revealed that penguin evolution was driven by changes in climate, and ocean currents.
Aug 18, 2020 · New research suggests that penguins' ancestors originated not in frozen Antarctica but, instead, off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, adapting to new climes over 22 million years.
- Christopher Intagliata
Once penguin ancestors started underwater life, they quickly evolved and spread around the Southern Hemisphere. Penguin ancestors adapted to underwater life by evolving denser bones and shorter wings for diving, feathers that are impenetrable to wind and water and dark back and white front to camouflage them when viewed from both below and ...
Dec 23, 2013 · Our results suggest that most of the major groups of extant penguins diverged 11–16 Ma. This overlaps with the sharp decline in Antarctic temperatures that began approximately 12 Ma, suggesting a possible relationship between climate change and penguin evolution.
- Sankar Subramanian, Gabrielle Beans-Picon, Siva K. Swaminathan, Craig D. Millar, David Martin Lamber...
- 2013
Aug 17, 2020 · KELLY: Well, armed with genetic evidence from 18 species of modern-day penguins, his team has an answer. BOWIE: Which turned out to be along the coast of Australia and New Zealand and nearby...
Penguins are flightless seabirds that live almost exclusively below the equator. Some island-dwellers can be found in warmer climates, but most—including emperor, adélie, chinstrap, and gentoo ...
