Genomic insights into the secondary aquatic transition of penguins [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 This study examines the tempo and drivers of penguin diversification by combining genomes from all extant and recently extinct penguin lineages, stratigraphic data from fossil penguins and morphological and biogeographic data from all extant and extinct ...
Theresa L. Cole +39 more
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New Miocene Fossils and the History of Penguins in Australia
PLoS ONE, 2016 Australia has a fossil record of penguins reaching back to the Eocene, yet today is inhabited by just one breeding species, the little penguin Eudyptula minor.
Stephen Gallagher, Travis Park
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A new tiny fossil penguin from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and the morphofunctional transition of the penguin wing [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society of New ZealandTatsuro Ando +2 more
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At the root of the early penguin neck: a study of the only two cervicodorsal spines recovered from the Eocene of Antarctica [PDF]
Polar Research, 2014 The spinal column of early Antarctic penguins is poorly known, mainly due to the scarcity of articulated vertebrae in the fossil record. One of the most interesting segments of this part of the skeleton is the transitional series located at the root of ...
Piotr Jadwiszczak
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Fossil plotopterid seabirds from the Eo-Oligocene of the Olympic Peninsula (Washington State, USA): descriptions and functional morphology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) were a group of extinct wing-propelled marine birds that are known from Paleogene-aged sediments (Eocene to Miocene), mostly around the Pacific Rim (especially Japan and the northwest coast of North America).
Gareth J Dyke, Xia Wang, Michael B Habib
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New mammalian and avian records from the late Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta formations of Seymour Island, Antarctica [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The middle–late Eocene of Antarctica was characterized by dramatic change as the continent became isolated from the other southern landmasses and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current formed.
Sarah N. Davis +7 more
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Diversity, 2020 We describe a partial skeleton of a stem group penguin from the Waipara Greensand in New Zealand, which is tentatively assigned to Muriwaimanu tuatahi. The fossil includes the first complete wing of a Paleocene penguin and informs on previously unknown ...
Gerald Mayr +5 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Anthropogenic activities, especially associated with fossil fuel combustion, are raising concerns worldwide, but remote areas with extreme climate conditions, such as Antarctica, are isolated from the adverse influence of human civilisation.
Siwatt Pongpiachan +7 more
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Melanin concentration gradients in modern and fossil feathers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In birds and feathered non-avian dinosaurs, within-feather pigmentation patterns range from discrete spots and stripes to more subtle patterns, but the latter remain largely unstudied.
Daniel J Field +5 more
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Mutation and evolutionary rates in adélie penguins from the antarctic. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2008 Precise estimations of molecular rates are fundamental to our understanding of the processes of evolution. In principle, mutation and evolutionary rates for neutral regions of the same species are expected to be equal. However, a number of recent studies
Craig D Millar +8 more
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