Evidence for a recent origin of penguins

• Published in: Biology Letters
• Main Authors: Sankarasubramanian, Sankar, Beans-Picon, Gabrielle, K. Swaminathan, Siva, D. Millar, Craig, Lambert, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2013
• Subjects: Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis; Antarctic; Griffith; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/57567; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0748

Penguins are a remarkable group of birds, with the 18 extant species living in diverse climatic zones from the tropics to Antarctica. The timing of the origin of these extant penguins remains controversial. Previous studies based on DNA sequences and fossil records have suggested widely differing ti...