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Why Did Penguins Stop Flying? The Answer Is Evolutionary
National Geographic ^ | May 20, 2013 | Brian Handwerk

Posted on 05/21/2013 7:34:58 PM PDT by EveningStar

Penguins lost the ability to fly eons ago, and scientists may have finally figured out why. A new study suggests that getting off the ground eventually just took too much effort for birds that were becoming expert swimmers.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; penguins
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To: EveningStar

They ate so many fish, they started acting like them.


41 posted on 05/21/2013 8:50:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: EveningStar

Is there a penguin that has wings that could fly?


42 posted on 05/21/2013 8:59:16 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: DManA

Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good...

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them


As indicated above, He simply speaks things into existence and has fingers when He wants to snap them.


43 posted on 05/21/2013 9:25:27 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: EveningStar

Oh rEALLY?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4&feature=player_embedded#!


44 posted on 05/21/2013 9:43:07 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 ("as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.")
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To: Celtic Conservative

Darn you beat me to it. Oh well here come the secondary jokes. Drum roll if you please.

1. It’s Bush’s fault!

2. The sequester.

2. Global Warming

3. They don’t have enough miles on their card.

4. Out of gas.


45 posted on 05/21/2013 9:46:11 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: EveningStar

If my food was in the water, I sure as hell wouldn’t be flying around looking at it.


46 posted on 05/21/2013 10:25:40 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
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To: EveningStar

BBC video of Penguins flying

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mkyYbIhBRmg

:)


47 posted on 05/21/2013 10:34:12 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: DManA

So GOD snaped his fingers and penguins existed

GOD spoke penguins into beginning. HE is the WORD.


48 posted on 05/21/2013 10:37:09 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: EveningStar
Penguins are a Southern Hemisphere bird, and have a relative that flies (in the air) in the Northern Hemisphere. I've forgotten its name—was it the Murre?
49 posted on 05/21/2013 10:53:10 PM PDT by Does so (Progressives Don't Know the Meaning of INFRINGED...)
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To: EveningStar

Selective breeding intent on perfecting an avian bowling pin.


50 posted on 05/22/2013 1:20:14 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: EveningStar

Penguins don't come from next door,they come from the Antarctic!

51 posted on 05/22/2013 2:59:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: dfwgator
Red Wings and Penguins evolved? Who woulda thunk it.

Is this like going to a fight and having a Hockey game break out?

52 posted on 05/22/2013 3:04:27 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks EveningStar.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


53 posted on 05/22/2013 9:41:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: EveningStar

Because they ran out of “south” to fly to ?


54 posted on 05/23/2013 3:51:34 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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