SciShow: The Northern Hemisphere’s Very Own Giant Penguins (Sort Of)

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Content of the Lesson: Today, penguins are found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. But fossils have revealed giant lookalikes to these swimming birds further up north, spurring questions of how they evolved and what happened to them. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jzs.12400 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01959-6 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119990475.ch6 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00116.x https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Aptenodytes_forsteri/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/e/emperor-penguin/ https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/emperor-penguins https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/cm-nza062820.php https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/p00755-p00759.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzgk__0bezk https://www.pnas.org/content/113/43/12006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cp1n_vPvYY https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018213003659?casa_token=sfclGSkleGsAAAAA:rVxG5tWIcXA8K1OiAlD1Az6IOraoitAMGzIXla_AvWf-3bHguAyMvkfe83BkDvq1LXM1eNRoY_s Image Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/236024.php?from=468991 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/penguin-distribution-world-map-cartoon-vector-gm937969268-256516089 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/isolated-emperor-penguin-gm146906245-7196097 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/city-people-set-gm523895883-52105134 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Copepteryx_hexeris.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kairuku.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kumimanu_NT.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/conception-of-diving-penguin-plunged-in-blue-water-gm528906860-93135745 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gannets-diving-for-fish-gm471959659-30387918 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chinstrap-penguins-gm1196653143-341419930 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/great-shearwater-gm1271602483-374141883 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/northern-gannet-gm1062506874-284062944 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/orca-killer-whale-while-jumping-gm498463926-79666863 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/weddell-seal-in-antarctica-gm684178336-125635327 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/seal-lion-on-the-rocks-gm1182254766-331908013 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/king-penguins-and-seals-panorama-south-georgia-antarctic-islands-gm1222212098-358562089 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/emperor-penguin-isolated-on-white-background-gm841158558-137575621 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-breasted-cormorant-gm503392686-82502703


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