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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611980/postsPenguins survived when dinosaurs died
Australian Broadcasting ^ | 4/7/2006 | By Marilyn Head for ABC Science Online
Posted on 04/09/2006 10:31:04 AM PDT by Lessismore
New analysis of the world's oldest fossil penguins confirms some birds survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, researchers say.
The penguins once lived in shallow seas off New Zealand's east coast 60 million years ago.
Now a molecular study, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, links them closely to modern penguins.
Co-author Associate Professor Ewan Fordyce from the University of Otago says penguins are specialised birds that evolved much later than other species.
"The fact that they have been found within a few million years of the dinosaurs' extinction is compelling evidence that modern birds must have evolved earlier and diversified during the time of the dinosaurs," he said.
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