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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

10,000 Birds

And, they wear tuxedos, which seem to provide camouflage while they are swimming, where leopard seals, sharks, and other creatures would like to make a meal of them. One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research. The fossils were very well preserved and included feathers. Salas-Gismondi, R.,

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