Penguins Probably Lived Alongside Dinosaurs

[suspsy]

http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2017/02/24/penguins-lived-alongside-dinosaurs-probably.html

Interesting stuff! Makes me yearn even more for some company to produce a nice prehistoric penguin figure or two.

[Derek.McManus]

Another very interesting article, I must admit it would never have occurred to me to consider dinosaurs and penguins as contemporaries! Once again another option for an interesting figure if more details come to light!

[BlueKrono]

The Kaiyodo Copepteryx isn't bad. But I do wish there were more.

[stargatedalek]

The Kaiyodo Copepteryx isn't bad. But I do wish there were more.

Copepteryx is also a gannet and not a penguin

Does that make the Yowies the only extinct penguin figure?

[BlueKrono]

I actually did not know that. I suppose next you're gonna tell me that Hesperornis like the Primeval figure wasn't a penguin either! But in all seriousness I think you're right about the Yowies.

[Silvanusaurus]

Massive plot twist... Penguins are Dinosaurs. 

[The Atroxious]

Massive plot twist... Penguins are Dinosaurs. 

Basically what I thought when I saw the title of the thread. It's impossible for penguins to not be contemporaries of dinosaurs seeing as how they are dinosaurs. You can't not be a contemporary of yourself.

[Halichoeres]

The Kaiyodo Copepteryx isn't bad. But I do wish there were more.

Copepteryx is also a gannet and not a penguin

Does that make the Yowies the only extinct penguin figure?

I imagine sometime this century we'll lose one or more extant penguin species, and then we'll magically have MANY extinct penguin figures.

[BlueKrono]

My money's on the next four years.

[stargatedalek]

I imagine sometime this century we'll lose one or more extant penguin species, and then we'll magically have MANY extinct penguin figures.

Unfortunately I don't think there's ever been any figures made of the rarer penguin species (IE yellow eyed).

[Brontozaurus]

I actually did not know that. I suppose next you're gonna tell me that Hesperornis like the Primeval figure wasn't a penguin either! But in all seriousness I think you're right about the Yowies.

Surprise! They're weird basal birds not particularly near penguins.

[Halichoeres]

I actually did not know that. I suppose next you're gonna tell me that Hesperornis like the Primeval figure wasn't a penguin either! But in all seriousness I think you're right about the Yowies.

Surprise! They're weird basal birds not particularly near penguins.

My impression was he meant that facetiously.

[BlueKrono]

Humor is hard to read on the internet isn't it? But my knowledge of prehistoric birds is actually rather lacking. Yet another reason I appreciate this forum!

[Sigmasaurus]

Woah, That's awesome!

[GasmaskMax]

I had no idea penguins were that old. So wouldn't that put them on the more primitive end of the bird spectrum, or is my knowledge of extinct birds just as lacking as I already know it is?

[Halichoeres]

I had no idea penguins were that old. So wouldn't that put them on the more primitive end of the bird spectrum, or is my knowledge of extinct birds just as lacking as I already know it is?

Evolutionary biologists try to avoid using the word primitive to refer to anything currently alive, because an extant organism has, by definition, been evolving just as long as everything else now alive and carries a mix of both primitive and derived features. Traditionally penguins have been thought to be one of the first groups to diverge from other birds, but molecular phylogenies now find them deeply nested within a clade of other aquatic birds. Their closest relatives are probably the group containing albatrosses and petrels.

[GasmaskMax]

I had no idea penguins were that old. So wouldn't that put them on the more primitive end of the bird spectrum, or is my knowledge of extinct birds just as lacking as I already know it is?

Evolutionary biologists try to avoid using the word primitive to refer to anything currently alive, because an extant organism has, by definition, been evolving just as long as everything else now alive and carries a mix of both primitive and derived features. Traditionally penguins have been thought to be one of the first groups to diverge from other birds, but molecular phylogenies now find them deeply nested within a clade of other aquatic birds. Their closest relatives are probably the group containing albatrosses and petrels.

Good to know.

[Sinornis]

If they made extinct penguin figures that looked like the attached photo, I'm a customer! While they are at it, and I think I mentioned this before, they should consider some Green River and Messel birds. Presbyornis would be a great collector figure.

A little off topic, I'd like to see a another attempt at a Hesperornis figure and one of Ichthyornis.

http://avianmusing.blogspot.com/

1. Pinguinus impennis 2. Waimanu manneringi 3. Pachydyptes ponderosus 4. Icadyptes salasi 5. Inkayacu paracasensis 6. Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi

[BlueKrono]

That's a fantastic illustration! And those see some seriously big birds. Now I want to make a model of Icadyptes.

[Dilopho]

After cracking up laughing for way too long at number 3 (he's such a little dumpling!!! Awwww!!!), I think the colours on these guys are cool. All penguin illustrations are always emperor penguin colours or just blue.