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Scientists have discovered why penguins lost the ability to fly

 Ученые выяснили, почему пингвины разучились летатьIf birds are not traded the sky to the sea, they would share the fate of the dinosaurs.

Today is “silly penguin timidly hides the body fat in the rocks”. But in the age of the dinosaurs the bird “proudly hovered between the clouds and the sea, like black lightning”.

Then something happened, and unlike dinosaurs, the penguins got off easy – the first simply “kicked the bucket”, and the second stopped flying. And, according to science, it is a miracle.

According to the American scientist Daniel Ksepka, flying penguins was forced to emigrate to the seas and oceans. Where the birds had to survive and hunt. And when they are brought to Antarctica, fenders modified, on the chest there is an additional layer of feathers and improved muscles.

The expert believes that penguins lost the ability to fly is a big breakthrough in the evolution. After all, that is why they did not share the sad fate of his contemporaries – the dinosaurs.

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