Penguin’s flight from Antarctica clocked
The birds’ ancestors may have fled to warmer digs
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COMMON GROUND Penguins, such as these king penguins, may have had a common ancestor that lived about 20 million years ago in Antarctica. The main groups of living penguins began diverging between 16 million and 11 million years ago, a study finds.
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