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Paleontologists Unearth Giant Fossilized Penguin
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The BBC reports that scientists have discovered the 36-million-year-old fossil of a penguin nearly five feet tall and almost twice the weight of an Emperor Penguin, the largest living species. 'The heavier the penguin, the deeper it dives,' says Julia Clarke, a palaeontologist at the University of Texas. 'If that holds true for any penguins, then the dive depths achieved by these giant forms would've been very different.' The bird, named Inkayacu paracasensis, or water king, lived during the late Eocene period and had a long, straight beak, much longer than that of its modern relatives. But, most surprisingly, the giant penguin's feathers were brown and gray, distinct from the black 'tuxedo'"
Reader SpuriousLogic notes that it's also getting easier to keep an eye on modern penguins, since Google has extended Street View to Antarctica.
Why aren't there giant penguins around today? It must be due to global warming...
While rossdee was clearly trolling with his comment, his subject line actually does hit the nail right on the head. The reason why giant penguins aren't around today is precisely because the climate has changed to one that isn't suitable for them.
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2010/10/02/october-2-2010/
Big penguins in the past doesn't seem to be totally unheard of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeeudyptinae
No, not Linux.
This is just a cover story. For beyond the giant penguins resides the Plateau of Leng, the long-forgotten city of the Elder Things.
Beware! BEWARE!!!
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
You mean 'anthropogenic' warming. You shouldn't call the warming 'anthropomorphic', it hates that.
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