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Inkayacu is a genus of extinct penguins.It lived in what is now Peru during the Late Eocene, around 36 million years ago.A nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 2008 and includes fossilized feathers, the first known in penguins.
Pakudyptes Temporal range: late Oligocene (Waitakian stage), ~ 24 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Sphenisciformes Genus: † Pakudyptes Ando et al., 2024 Species: † P. hakataramea Binomial name † Pakudyptes hakataramea Ando et al., 2024 Pakudyptes (meaning "small diver") is a genus of ...
Previously, scientists believed that penguins evolved near the poles in Antarctica and New Zealand, and moved closer to the equator around 10 million years ago. Since Icadyptes salasi lived in Peru during a period of great warmth, penguins must have adapted to warm climates around 30 million years earlier than previously believed.
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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.
Perudyptes devriesi is a basal penguin from the Middle Eocene (Mustersan, ~42 Ma) Paracas Formation of Peru. This new discovery is able to fill a major phylogenetic and stratigraphic (~20 million year) gap between the earliest fossil penguins (Waimanu manneringi and Muriwaimanu tuatahi, ~58–61.6 Ma) and the next oldest partial skeletons.
Most modern penguins have melanosomes that are of similar length to those of Inkayacu, but are much wider. There are also a greater number of them within living penguins' cells. The shape of these melanosomes gives them a dark brown or black colour, and is the reason why modern penguins are mostly black and white. [24]
This list includes organisms whose common or scientific names are drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas.When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first.