Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

[John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>]

If penguins are dependent on cold water currents, and cold water currents
reach the equator, the equator is not a barrier.  

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, David Marjanovic wrote:

> > 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*.
>