Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Phil Bigelow (bigelowp@juno.com) wrote:

<It is an interesting (even an important) find.  But it does raise a big
paleoecological question.  Since modern penguins are pelagic feeders, I wonder
what their K-T ancestors ate during the mass extinction.  (The K-T event was
not particularly kind to pelagic taxa).>

  *Waimanu* itself does not appear to be a "penguin" form sphenisciform. It
possesses longer, albeit still flightless, forelimbs, jointed elbows, implying
a possibly different wingstroke, less robust bones, and a more slender
mandible, resembling something more akin to a loon to my eyes.

  And that makes my mind shift towards Chatterjee's "loon."

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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