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Penguin videos and photos on the Internet Bird Collection (archived December 27, 2015) Penguin World; Penguins in Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand the Encyclopedia of New Zealand (archived September 5, 2008) Seaworld Penguin Information (archived October 17, 2013) "Lessons in a Land of Wind and Ice" from National Wildlife Magazine 1/15/2010
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, was a species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus .
Chinstrap penguin. Penguins are birds in the family Spheniscidae in the monotypic order Sphenisciformes. [1] They inhabit high-productivity marine habitats, almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere; the only species to occur north of the Equator is the Galapagos penguin.
“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the ...
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 100 cm (39 in) in length and weighing from 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb).
It is commonly known as the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, owing to its slate-blue plumage and is also known by its Māori name kororā. It is a marine neritic species that dives for food throughout the day and returns to burrows on the shore at dusk, making it the only nocturnal penguin species on land.
The Adélie penguin lives on sea ice but needs ice-free land to breed. With a reduction in sea ice, populations of the Adélie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years in the Antarctic Peninsula. [39] Young Adélie penguins that have no experience in social interaction may react to false cues when the penguins gather to breed.
Where this fits in with what we knew about penguins Some genetic analysis has shown that the Spheniscidae family , which present penguins belong to, evolved from flightless birds that lived 40-100 ...