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  2. Flying penguin hoax - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 July 2024. April Fool's Day hoax Flying Adélie penguins Miracles of Evolution is a BBC film trailer featuring flying penguins made in 2008 as an April Fools' Day hoax. The film was advertised as compelling evidence for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It was largely set on King George Island, 120 ...

  3. Penguin - Wikipedia

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    Like the penguins, puffins have a white chest, black back and short stubby wings providing excellent swimming ability in icy water. But, unlike penguins, puffins can fly, as flightless birds would not survive alongside land-based predators such as polar bears and foxes; there are no such predators in the Antarctic.

  4. A Wish for Wings That Work - Wikipedia

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    The story centers on Opus the Penguin (a main character in all three of Breathed's comic strips and, at the time, appearing in Outland). Opus is downhearted because, as a penguin, he cannot fly. Opus is downhearted because, as a penguin, he cannot fly.

  5. Flightless bird - Wikipedia

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    Penguins evolved their wing structure to become more efficient underwater at the cost of their efficiency in the air. [ 28 ] The only known species of flightless bird in which wings completely disappeared was the gigantic, herbivorous moa of New Zealand , hunted to extinction by humans by the 15th century.

  6. List of fictional penguins - Wikipedia

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    A mysterious penguin with the ability to fly. It is also known as "The Collector" and has the power to remove and eat other people's ESP abilities. Pegitan Healin' Good Pretty Cure: The penguin partner of Chiyu. Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, Private: Madagascar: A crafty group of penguins who try to escape the zoo to go back to Antarctica.

  7. Penguin Bloom - Wikipedia

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    After several weeks, Penguin fully recovers and learns to fly, inspiring Sam to want to do something for herself; she starts kayaking lessons. For Sam's birthday, the Blooms go for dinner at Jan's house, joined by Sam's sister Kylie and Sam's kayaking instructor Gaye.

  8. Little penguin - Wikipedia

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    It is commonly known as the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, owing to its slate-blue plumage and is also known by its Māori name kororā. It is a marine neritic species that dives for food throughout the day and returns to burrows on the shore at dusk, making it the only nocturnal penguin species on land.

  9. Learning to Fly (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song)

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    "Learning to Fly" is a song by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was written in 1991 by Tom Petty and his writing partner Jeff Lynne for the band's eighth studio album, Into the Great Wide Open (1991). The entire song is based on four simple chords, (F, C, A minor, and G).