Ancient relatives of penguins diversified quickly after the Cretaceous mass extinction event. Image courtesy of Mark P. Witton/Science Photo Library
Joel Kontinen
Some Darwinists think that in the evolution of birds, the early ones
used to skewer other birds, eating them.
Four new fossil species from New Zealand illustrate the
striking diversity of the earliest penguins, which possessed long, dagger-like
beaks they may have used to skewer prey.
The new discoveries “provide a stunning glimpse into the
earliest evolution of penguins”, says Gerald MaThe fossils were unearthed from the Waipara Greensand formation
in Canterbury, New Zealand, which contains rock dating back to between 62 and 58 million years old. The formation is well-known for holding some of the
earliest bird species that flourished and diversified after the supposed mass
extinction event that killed off all non-avian dinosaurs according to the
Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany.
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