Fossil finds shed light on penguins' evolutionary past
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 06:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Africa isn't the kind of place you might expect to find penguins. But one species lives along Africa's southern coast today, and newly found fossils confirm that as many as four penguin species coexisted on the continent in the past. Exactly why African penguin diversity plummeted to the one species that lives there today is still a mystery, but changing sea levels may be to blame, the researchers say.