Did you know that penguins could be the last dinosaurs in the world? Penguins have lived in Antarctica in the era of dinosaurs, at that time their name was still penguin dragons, when the dinosaurs died out, penguins still survived, but the appearance also changed from slender to fleshy, cute look.
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Penguins are the last dinosaurs
Although the dinosaurs went extinct, but the penguins survived, but this walking and swinging, no attack power of the little cute, it seems that there is no connection with the mighty tall dinosaurs, why do scientists say that they are the last dinosaurs?
Because most penguins like to live in places with water, so from the silt at the bottom of the water we can find a relatively well-preserved penguin skeleton, even the subtleties can be seen clearly, from the penguin skeleton we can not easily see the similarity with the dinosaurs, which is from the Jurassic period of dinosaur skeleton after fifteen thousand years of continuous evolution and formation.
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It is because of this evidence that the penguin is the last race left by dinosaurs, and when we know that the penguin evolved from dinosaurs, should we call it a penguin or a dinosaur? In fact, this is more similar to us humans, although we belong to the primate class, we are still human, and the same is true of penguins.
Although penguins evolved from dinosaurs, but still birds, scientists are very interested in the study of penguins, in the early 21st century, scientists were surprised to find that penguins in walking efficiency is much higher than humans, because of the upright walking mode of humans, few animals can run through humans with only two legs, and this is done.
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Humans are good at saving their muscle strength when walking, but penguins are much more powerful than humans by 20%, why? Although the penguin looks like it is a foot in addition to the body, but under its thick body there are hidden agile legs, and the funniest thing is that it is walking with its legs bent, so that walking can reduce energy consumption.
Before we said that in fact, penguins are birds, in our cognition most birds should be able to fly, but can the heavy body of penguins fly?
Penguins can fly
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Can the penguin, known as the last dinosaur, actually fly? Although most of the dinosaurs have become extinct, penguins have survived, and their slender bodies during the Jurassic period have gradually developed a rounded body, and penguins, despite their cute appearance, have mastered dazzling skills.
Don't look at the penguin with a round belly, the wings have degenerated into small forelimbs, but the penguin can indeed fly, not the way to fly barely on the ground, but the skill of really flying high on the wings, not only can fly in the air, penguins can also fly in the water, in nature only penguins have mastered this exclusive skill.
We have all seen pictures of penguins moving in the water before and thought that penguins were swimming, but it was not the case, the movement of penguins in the water was not swimming, but flying. Animals swimming in the water are actually seals, which swim forward by the squirming of their tails and bodies in the water.
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When the penguin is in the water, it glides forward on its wings, flies in the water, and can even fly directly from the water to the sky, which clearly proves the characteristics of the penguin as a bird. So why can penguins fly in water?
According to the results of the study, because the Antarctic is unusually cold all year round, penguins not only store thick fat in the body in order to resist the cold, but even their feathers are attached to the grease, it looks like the hair is shiny, and the resistance when flying in the water is perfectly solved by the smooth grease.
Because of these elements, penguins can generate a steady stream of power by flapping their wings in the water, just as smoothly as when other birds fly in the air. According to the data, penguins can fly as fast as 36 kilometers per hour in the water, and can even dive nearly 600 meters in the sea, which also makes penguins worthy of their name as the last dinosaur.
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Although we already know that penguins are one of the few dinosaurs that still survive and evolve, and we also know the unique and powerful skills of penguins, do you know why other dinosaurs are extinct and why penguins are still alive?
Why penguins were able to survive as the last dinosaurs
The earth has experienced various disasters, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, ice ages, with the passage of time, the earth has experienced five near-destruction disasters in its more than half a billion years of history, and countless creatures have died out in them and experienced a long time to re-give birth to new species.
In the Jurassic period, dinosaurs were the mainstream creatures at that time, of course, they could not withstand the pace of destruction, but a small branch of dinosaurs still survived tenaciously, that is, avian dinosaurs, they gradually evolved into the seventeen kinds of penguins we see now after experiencing the tribulations of time, which became the continuation of life after the feet of the dominant dinosaurs in the Jurassic period.
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These penguins have gradually gained more intelligence than other creatures in their continuous evolution and survival, and they will send a penguin down to explore the way before predation, and the other penguins will wait on the shore, and then after determining that there is no danger around, they will continue to go into the water to hunt.
Because the Climate of Antarctica is too cold, penguins in order to avoid their penguin eggs just after birth to be frozen to death, learned to first build a stone nest for themselves, used to resist the cold, but unlike other regions, in the Antarctic region, stones are the least common, because of the scarcity of resources, penguins often have to think of their own way.
In addition to some honestly looking for stones themselves, most of the penguins want to steal the stones found by other penguins for free, and even move the tiger away from the mountain, sending their own female penguins to disturb each other's vision, and then take the opportunity to steal more stones.
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In addition, there are too many things that penguins can do with their own wisdom, and some people think that this is not the wisdom of penguins, but just the instinctive means of survival of animals in nature, and many animals in nature will be like this, which is not compatible with opening wisdom.
But wisdom does not come about overnight, human evolution has taken a long time, and penguins have existed since the Jurassic, it is difficult to guarantee that wisdom will not really be produced under the tempering of time, what do you think about this? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.