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- A penguin does fly but under water not in the air :o)
- Penguin’s bodies aren’t built for flying. Their bones are solid and heavy and a flying bird’s bones are light and hollow. The solid bones help them to sink lower in the water.
- Penguin’s wings are paddle-like flippers. Their flippers aren’t big enough to lift them into the air like a flying birds wings but they are very good for pushing a penguin through water.
- Penguins get their food from the sea not on land but they come onto land to lay their eggs.
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- Scientists believed penguins evolved over 60 million years ago from the ancestors of albatrosses and petrels.
- The biggest penguin that ever lived was 1.5 meters tall and it lived in New Zealand thousands of years ago.
- The biggest penguin around these days are Emperor penguins. They live in Antarctica and they’re 1.3 meters tall.
- The smallest penguins are little Blue Penguins
- Penguins eat small fish, squid and sea creatures called krill.
- They can hold their breath underwater for about 18 minutes.
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- Have a close look at your own tongue in a mirror. Is your tongue rough or smooth? A penguin has a tongue that is covered with spines that point backwards into its mouth and down its throat to help it swallow wriggly live fish.
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- Penguins can swim up to 10 kilometres an hour. They use their feet and tail as a rudder and will sometimes leap right out of the water when they’re swimming. They use their paddle-like flippers to push them through the water. Use a pair of flippers to see how fast you can push yourself through the water.
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- Person 1: What do penguins eat for dinner?
- Person 2: I don’t know, what do penguins eat for dinner?
- Person 1: Fish fingers
- Person 2: Really, I didn’t know fish had fingers!
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