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Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Ronald Orenstein wrote:
>
> > Penguins actually have a broad latitudinal range, from the Equator (the
> > Galapagos Penguin) to the coast of Antarctica.
>
> This falsifies the equatorial barrier hypothesis.

Why? The Galápagos islands are in the Humboldt Stream. The equator by itself
is of course no barrier, the warm water is.

The Great Auk is *Pinguinus impennis*, BTW. The penguins, or at least some
of them, are called *Spheniscus*.