Essentially there was a species of birds called the great awks which most people called penguins, the ‘only modern species in the genus Pinguinus’ that humans hunted to extinction in the late 1700’s mid 1800’s. What we call penguins today were only named that because of their resemblance to these extinct birds
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Essentially there was a species of birds called the great awks which most people called penguins, the ‘only modern species in the genus Pinguinus’ that humans hunted to extinction in the
late 1700’smid 1800’s. What we call penguins today were only named that because of their resemblance to these extinct birdsAhhhh, thank you!
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