Extinct Penguin Wore Earth Tones, Fossil Shows

Penguins didn’t always wear tuxedos.

At least a large penguin that lived 36 million years ago looked nothing like Fred Astaire stepping out in high society. Nor anything like the house tom all dressed up in black and white with no place to go. Scientists announced Thursday that the fossils of the first extinct penguin to be found with preserved evidence of feathers showed that it had yet to adopt the tuxedo look of living penguins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/science/01penguin.html

Extinct Penguin Wore Earth Tones, Fossil Shows

Penguins didn’t always wear tuxedos.

At least a large penguin that lived 36 million years ago looked nothing like Fred Astaire stepping out in high society. Nor anything like the house tom all dressed up in black and white with no place to go. Scientists announced Thursday that the fossils of the first extinct penguin to be found with preserved evidence of feathers showed that it had yet to adopt the tuxedo look of living penguins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/science/01penguin.html

They had a bell bottom stage, too, but it was mercifully brief. The seals have never forgiven them.

They had a bell bottom stage, too, but it was mercifully brief. The seals have never forgiven them.

I guess the seals killed them all off, leaving only the tuxedoed penguins to rule antarctica.