{"id":109371,"date":"2020-07-01T02:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-zealands-ancient-monster-penguins-had-northern-hemisphere-doppelgangers"},"modified":"2020-07-01T02:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:09:06","slug":"new-zealands-ancient-monster-penguins-had-northern-hemisphere-doppelgangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-zealands-ancient-monster-penguins-had-northern-hemisphere-doppelgangers","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s ancient monster penguins had northern hemisphere doppelgangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-zealands-ancient-monster-penguins-had-northern-hemisphere-doppelgangers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s monster penguins, which lived 62 million years ago, had doppelgangers in Japan, the U.S. and Canada, a study published today in the <i>Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research<\/i> has found.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified striking similarities between the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/penguins\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">penguins<\/a>\u2019 fossilized bones and those of a group of much younger Northern Hemisphere <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/birds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">birds<\/a>, the plotopterids.<\/p>\n<p>These similarities suggest plotopterids and ancient penguins looked very similar and might help scientists understand how birds started using their wings to swim instead of fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s monster penguins, which lived 62 million years ago, had doppelgangers in Japan, the U.S. and Canada, a study published today in the Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research has found. Scientists have identified striking similarities between the penguins\u2019 fossilized bones and those of a group of much younger Northern Hemisphere birds, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}