Why Did Penguins Stop Flying? The Answer Is Evolutionary

National Geographic ^ | May 20, 2013 | Brian Handwerk

[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.

[smokingfrog]

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

[CodeToad]

Is there a penguin that has wings that could fly?

[skr]

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

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

[John 3_19-21]

Oh rEALLY?

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

[Idaho_Cowboy]

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.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

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

[Pikachu_Dad]

BBC video of Penguins flying

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

:)

[stars & stripes forever]

So GOD snaped his fingers and penguins existed

GOD spoke penguins into beginning. HE is the WORD.

[Does so]

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?

[clearcarbon]

Selective breeding intent on perfecting an avian bowling pin.

[Gay State Conservative]

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

[Lakeshark]

Red Wings and Penguins evolved? Who woulda thunk it.

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

[SunkenCiv]

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[P.O.E.]

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