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Shifting Icebergs May Have Forced Penguin Evolution
Yahoo!News ^ | November 9, 2005 | Ker Than

Posted on 11/09/2005 11:10:30 AM PST by mlc9852

The breakup of giant icebergs may have forced minor evolutionary changes in penguins over the past 6,000 years, a new study suggests.

The Antarctic iceberg chunks, which break off the continent now and then, are thought to have blocked the swim paths of Adelie penguins returning home to their colonies. Some of the penguins were forced to become immigrants in other colonies, where they established new homes and interbred with the locals.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: crevolist; penguinhumor
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1 posted on 11/09/2005 11:10:31 AM PST by mlc9852
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And when they evolve into something other than penguins, then we'll have something to talk about.


2 posted on 11/09/2005 11:12:14 AM PST by GLDNGUN
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They were jsut doing penguins stuff that that native peguins would not do!


3 posted on 11/09/2005 11:12:29 AM PST by pikachu (You're unique and special -- just like everyone else.)
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Shifting Icebergs May Have Forced French Revolution


4 posted on 11/09/2005 11:12:35 AM PST by b4its2late (Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
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The breakup of giant icebergs may have forced minor evolutionary changes in penguins

..???...naw, they hop in little black and white lifeboats,and rowed to another bigger iceberg. How much did this study cost?

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5 posted on 11/09/2005 11:13:47 AM PST by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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The breakup of giant icebergs may have forced minor evolutionary changes in penguins over the past 6,000 years, a new study suggests.

This would indicate that global warming has been occurring for at least 6000 years, long before the advent of the evil SUV.

6 posted on 11/09/2005 11:14:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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Minor Evolutionary or is it Natural Selection


7 posted on 11/09/2005 11:14:03 AM PST by JustAnotherOkie
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Some of the penguins were forced to become immigrants in other colonies, where they established new homes and interbred with the locals.

But did they riot first and demand more welfare programs. Did they decry discrimination. And did they say to the native Penguins, this our land now, raise your Penguin butts up in the air 5 times a day?

8 posted on 11/09/2005 11:15:35 AM PST by A message
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Alaska used to have penguins. Unfortunately, polar bears have little sense of humor.


9 posted on 11/09/2005 11:16:33 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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LOL - pretty funny.


10 posted on 11/09/2005 11:16:51 AM PST by mlc9852
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Cute pic.


11 posted on 11/09/2005 11:17:17 AM PST by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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Who has the picture of the penguin slapping the other penguin? I love that picture!


12 posted on 11/09/2005 11:17:17 AM PST by mlc9852
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Blast! You SO beat me to the punch on that one. :)


13 posted on 11/09/2005 11:18:46 AM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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Wait, so through Global Warming, we have made the iceburgs break off due to melting and this Global Warming trend is sooo evil, it has actually went back in time 6,000 years???


14 posted on 11/09/2005 11:19:07 AM PST by sandbar
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may have forced minor evolutionary changes in penguins over the past 6,000 years, a new study suggests.

Well maybe some minor ones..




15 posted on 11/09/2005 11:22:24 AM PST by tiredoflaundry ("Youth" - French for Muslim Rioters)
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One of us . . . one of us . . . one of us . . .


16 posted on 11/09/2005 11:26:36 AM PST by w_over_w (This tagline is blank, well, not actually blank but it would be if I didn't just tell you.)
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Obviously, these alterations in mating habits all stemmed from propenguinity!


17 posted on 11/09/2005 11:41:10 AM PST by yatros from flatwater
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So what caused the icebergs to shift after the ice age and thousands of years before the industrial age?

A little global warming?


18 posted on 11/09/2005 11:52:24 AM PST by linkinpunk
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That evolutionists have to try so hard to show evolution, speaks volumes for the creationist side.


19 posted on 11/09/2005 12:03:29 PM PST by DannyTN
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That creationists have a compulsion to distort everything scientists say speaks volumes about their credibility.


20 posted on 11/09/2005 12:54:46 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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