Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

I see what you're saying, Mary, but it sure is subtle.  Part of the trouble 
is that neither article says how they actually dated those fossils, nor how 
they know their genetic relationship to modern penguins.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
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> Contrast this:
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3628684a7693,00.html
> Penguin fossils  world's oldest
> 06 April 2006
> By MATTHEW TORBIT
> "Dna tests on the  Waimanu penguin fossils, found near the Waipara River,
> have determined they are  between 60 million and 62 million years old â or 
> up to
> 10 million years older  than any other penguin remains discovered.
>
> with this:
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1610327.htm
> Penguins survived when dinosaurs died
> Marilyn Head
> ABC Science  Online
> Friday, 7 April 2006
> <snip>
> "The study incorporates genetic evidence of the evolutionary relationships
> between penguins' distant cousins like shearwaters, albatrosses, ducks and
> moas."
>
> "The researchers used DNA from these birds to provide a broad framework of
> family relationships which, together with the fossil evidence, is used to
> predict when those birds must have arisen."
> ____
>
> Mary



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