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Another one for you. there are no extant true penguins. What we see now are covergently evolved flightless birds. True penguins went extinct.

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v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It was not closely related to the penguins of the Southern Hemisphere, which were named for their resemblance to this species.

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- basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  rest impennis
  
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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
?!

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- Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Only pingwings, no penguins.
  
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wait what? Damn I didn’t know that.

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