#penguis

[scotianostra]

We all have oor favourite animals, mines are these wee fellas, they look a very content group and have real character. I don't know which one is Major General Sir Nils Olav III, but I like to think he was out there somewhere.

[todropscience]

TINY PREHISTORIC PENGUIN FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

Argentinian researchers discovered in Marambio Island, West Antarctic Peninsula, fossils of a tiny penguin that measured in life less than 35 cm tall. 34 million years ago, penguins reigned on Marambio Island (aka Seymour Island), with tiny specimens smaller than the blue penguin that currently exists in New Zealand, which are about 40 cm in height, to large specimens, as Palaeeudyptes klekowskii that could reach 2.20 m tall, much more than modern emperor penguins that inhabits today some regions of Antarctica. This new species of dwarf penguin was named Aprosdokitos mikrotero (unexpected minuscule).

-Carolina Costa Hospitaleche, who led the study, as reference of size with modern emperor penguin, and fossil antarctic penguins.

Penguins were and are a successful group of seabirds that have conquered  different  ecological niches, occupying  marine  coasts  in  diverse  cold  and  temper-ate environments around the world. Evolutionarily speaking, they are viewed as conservative because their morphology shows little change since the Paleocene, 66 to 56 million years ago, although body size appears to be a variable feature both temporally and geographically.

According to the researcher, the finding of the Aprosdokitos mikrotero occurred in 2012. Meanwhile, in a current campaign, PhD. Hospitaleche found a new fossil of dwarf penguin, in a much older site, about 50 million years old.

Photo:  Agencia CTyS

Reference: Hospitaleche et al., 2017.  Aprosdokitos mikrotero gen. et sp. nov., the tiniest Sphenisciformes that lived in Antarctica during the Paleogene.  Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen

[judyfaylondon]

Shame on Humanity (a poem) #poem #poetry #greatauk #penguins #poemforani...

[emmettkane]

Went to the Camden aquarium ages ago, here are the good penguins, they want to play

[lespetitsbuttons]

Aye Aye Captain!!! Are you ready for a new adventure? because we are!!.. The boat is loaded and we are fully geared up...sailing to uncharted territories full of treasures and new stories...⠀ ⠀ http://ow.ly/N2Zes ⠀

[musian]

i've come to the conclusion that i'm a penguin :)

[mpenxa-blog]

Crosby and Malkin finished. 22" x 30" on watercolor paper. #Penguis #nhl Email me if interested: [email protected]