[PatrickHenry]

The question is, what survival benefit did a useless wing provide?

[trek]

"The question is, what survival benefit did a useless wing provide?"

Got those dudes a blockbuster movie. Top that!

[SalukiLawyer]

Cute. But I think penguins are birds who are able to live in an extreme environment by flying underwater. A penguin born with a freakishly large wing would simply die, since it would not be suited to its lifestyle.

By posting a picture of a successful creature that has unusual means to deal with an extreme environment, you have shed no light on the issue of original random mutations. I want to rewind the tape a few millions years to transitional individuals and talk about them.