Chris Merkord Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 National Geographic Why Did Penguins Stop Flying? The Answer Is Evolutionary National Geographic These new findings from other diving birds like murres provide an elegant explanation of a key step in the wing-to-flipper transition." Katsufumi Sato, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Tokyo's Ocean Research Institute and a National ... Why Penguins Don't FlyScience AAAS all 5 news articles » View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Merkord Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 Why Penguins Don't Fly Science AAAS On the wing, murres burn energy at 31 times their rate at rest, the highest known ratio in a bird, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When other ... The study provides valuable confirmation of the idea that ... View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhysOrg Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 (Phys.org) —An international team of wildlife researchers has found evidence to support the theory that some birds, such as penguins, lost the ability to fly because of adaptations that allowed for better swimming. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes the results of testing energy efficiency levels of birds that both fly and dive as compared to birds that have lost the ability to fly. Read the full article on PhysOrg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Merkord Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Zee News Why Penguins Quit Flying LiveScience.com The study backs up the biomechanical hypothesis that birds can't be highly efficient at both swimming and diving, and it shows that murres are walking on a thin evoluntionary line between the two abilities. Study researcher Robert Ricklefs, an ... Why Did Penguins Stop Flying? The Answer Is EvolutionaryNational Geographic Why Penguins Don't FlyScience AAAS all 19 news articles » View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Merkord Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 Penguins' Flying Ability Lost As Birds Became Better Swimmers, Study Of Murres ... Huffington Post Study researcher Robert Ricklefs, an ornithologist at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, told Nature that murres would have to "reduce their wings or grow larger to improve their diving, and both would make flying impossible." The research was ... View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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