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Pengu was Thicc
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Sorry for the title I couldn't resist, but this discovery about a new giant penguin in New Zealand is interesting
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Pachydyptes ponderosus was the ultimate thicc penguin though.

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why did some Eocene penguins have those longish necks?or is just a plaeomeme not supported by data
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Now that we know that vegaviiforms were a thing, it begs the question as to how penguins usurped their ecological niche.
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arent Vegaviiforms aerial type divers tho? from what i've read of course, they would be something akin to grebes, loons, cormorants, among other birds. and those exist along with penguins. in fact, i think the only birds that were in the same niche while not competing with them were Plotopterids during the cenozoic and Hesperornithids during the mesozoic.
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I'm not sure exactly what vegaviids were up to, but either way the point stands that there's no particular reason one group of marine birds would prevent the evolution of the other - just look at today's diversity of waterbirds.
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They seem to have been marine divers. Granted, cormorants, divine petrels and penguins do co-exist
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