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Shifting Icebergs May Have Forced Penguin Evolution
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| 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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posted on
11/09/2005 11:10:31 AM PST
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mlc9852
To: mlc9852
And when they evolve into something other than penguins, then we'll have something to talk about.
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:12:14 AM PST
by
GLDNGUN
To: mlc9852
They were jsut doing penguins stuff that that native peguins would not do!
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:12:29 AM PST
by
pikachu
(You're unique and special -- just like everyone else.)
To: mlc9852
Shifting Icebergs May Have Forced French Revolution
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:12:35 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
To: mlc9852
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?
Doogle
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:13:47 AM PST
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Doogle
(USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
To: mlc9852
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.
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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.)
To: mlc9852
Minor Evolutionary or is it Natural Selection
To: mlc9852
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?
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:15:35 AM PST
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A message
To: mlc9852
Alaska used to have penguins. Unfortunately, polar bears have little sense of humor.
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:16:33 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: A message
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:16:51 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: thackney
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:17:17 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: mlc9852
Who has the picture of the penguin slapping the other penguin? I love that picture!
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:17:17 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: A message
Blast! You SO beat me to the punch on that one. :)
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:18:46 AM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: mlc9852
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???
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:19:07 AM PST
by
sandbar
To: mlc9852
may have forced minor evolutionary changes in penguins over the past 6,000 years, a new study suggests. Well maybe some minor ones..
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posted on
11/09/2005 11:22:24 AM PST
by
tiredoflaundry
("Youth" - French for Muslim Rioters)
To: mlc9852
One of us . . . one of us . . . one of us . . .
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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.)
To: mlc9852
Obviously, these alterations in mating habits all stemmed from propenguinity!
To: mlc9852
So what caused the icebergs to shift after the ice age and thousands of years before the industrial age?
A little global warming?
To: mlc9852
That evolutionists have to try so hard to show evolution, speaks volumes for the creationist side.
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posted on
11/09/2005 12:03:29 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
That creationists have a compulsion to distort everything scientists say speaks volumes about their credibility.
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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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