Science is a process of self-correction, always in flux. An accepted hypothesis is set against new information. The world is not smooth after all. Demons or wickedness do not cause disease. And Hunter Island penguin? Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either. Researchers write in the Anarchist Journal of the Society of Ages what remains of one species is like a “mixed mix” of bones from three existing species.
The bones were discovered in the 1980s when a prehistoric lump of rubbish was excavated on the Tasmanian Hunter Island. Two scientists named Tets and O’Connor argued that the remains were different enough from other penguins to make their own genus and genus, one that may have died at some point. the Holocene. The penguin parents took pride in the extinct bird Tasidyptes hunterivan, and that was it.
Except that this is a science, where a story is never over. Other biologists were not satisfied with the evidence presented by Tets and O’Connor. There were only four bones, and they all resembled modern species. Fortunately, in 2017, we have ways of making fossils talk. A research team led by Tess Cole of the University of Otago used DNA coding to study the genetic code of each of the four bones.
“It was an unexpectedly fun story,” Cole said in a statement, “because we show that Tasmania’s‘ extinct ’penguins are no more extinct or unique penguins. ”
The bones were “a mixed mixture of three living penguin species, from two genes”: Fiordland or Tawaki rocky penguinEudyptes pachyrhynchus) and snares penguin Snares (Eudyptes strongus), both New Zealand, and Australia’s little fairy penguin (Eudyptula novaehollandiae).
“This study shows how useful old DNA testing can be,” said Cole. “Not only does it help us identify new but extinct species, but it can help us manage previously posted species that did not exist, as in this case. . “