Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs

[Jean-Michel Benoit <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello all
any photo or reconstruction of the fossils available on online, by any
chance?
Cheers,
Jean-Michel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Cc: <bigelowp@juno.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs


> 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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