# Penguinsaurus Rex!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436 "2007-06-26T04:16:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/1 "2007-06-26T04:16:22Z")
[I hope that a sabre-toothed one turns up next.](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-penguins26jun26,1,593644.story?coll=la-headlines-world&track=crosspromo) > [@](#): > > Researchers reported Monday that they had unearthed two fossil penguins, one of which stood 5 feet tall, that lived in the warm climate of prehistoric Peru — a discovery that promises to change the way scientists think about penguins and cold weather. > > Until now, scientists were comfortable with the notion that ancient penguins first appeared more than 60 million years ago in cold habitats and didn’t move close to the equator until 8 million years ago. Large penguins, in particular, were thought to live only in colder climes. > > The fossils, described online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, disproved these theories. So, I’ve gotta ask: Did they tate like chicken? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/2 "2007-06-26T04:26:09Z")
Big goddamn chicken! Huge pecker. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/3 "2007-06-26T16:21:33Z")
Giant penguins could kill you with their massive cuteness. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/4 "2007-06-26T16:27:19Z")
I’m gonna kill you Tuckerfan if you keep talking about eating penguins. This is your SECOND thread on it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/5 "2007-06-26T16:44:14Z")
> [@](#): > > So, I’ve gotta ask: Did they taste like chicken? [Mel Blanc voice] Pen-goo-wins is prac-tic-ally chickens[/Mel Blanc voice] ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/6 "2007-06-26T16:49:03Z")
_At the Mountains of Madness_… in PERU! I tell you, penguins have creeped (crept?) me out ever since reading that H. P. Lovecraft gem, and now this. Gives me the shivers, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/7 "2007-06-26T17:31:43Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I’m gonna kill you Tuckerfan if you keep talking about eating penguins. This is your SECOND thread on it. [/QUOTE] Clever man, he said, “tate” not taste. He’s got an out here. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/8 "2007-06-26T18:54:35Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] _At the Mountains of Madness_… in PERU! I tell you, penguins have creeped (crept?) me out ever since reading that H. P. Lovecraft gem, and now this. Gives me the shivers, it does. [/QUOTE] Damn you for beating me to the first Lovecraft reference. 🙂 Luckily, the researchers didn’t find the shoggoth that’s buried nearby. “Hey, look skeletal remains of a GAAAAHH.” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/9 "2007-06-26T18:58:31Z")
So, the feature film will be “March of the Penguins” meets “Jurassic Park”? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/10 "2007-06-26T19:00:29Z")
Curse you, **Tuckerfan**! Here I was rushing to post about it and I’m scooped. grumble, grumble, grumble. At least my source gives a picture of one heck of a penguin skull. Definitely wouldn’t want that to be swimming near that bird! [Paeleontologist: Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/06/25/4289049-ap.html) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/11 "2007-06-26T19:06:22Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] _At the Mountains of Madness_… in PERU! I tell you, penguins have creeped (crept?) me out ever since reading that H. P. Lovecraft gem, and now this. Gives me the shivers, it does. [/QUOTE] And I quit reading Swiss Family Robinson when the kids started killing penguins for no reason at all. I mean, they weren’t hungry, and there was plenty of food around, they just started murdering them one after another because they’d never seen humans and didn’t need to run away. Fucking Limey explorers. :mad: (I love the Brits, really I do, I just find that attitude of that century APPALLING!) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/12 "2007-06-26T19:10:29Z")
Are they going to call it Machu Pengu? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/13 "2007-06-26T19:26:45Z")
Wait a minute – there are penguins in the Galapagos Islands? There are warm climate penguins? Pineapples don’t grow on trees? What’s next, flying crocs? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/14 "2007-06-26T19:35:17Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Wait a minute – there are penguins in the Galapagos Islands? There are warm climate penguins? Pineapples don’t grow on trees? What’s next, flying crocs? [/QUOTE] Faerie penduins are tropical. I love penguins. Rent the Life of Birds with David Attenborough. I love David Attenborough. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/15 "2007-06-26T20:11:48Z")
Are you saying that David Attenborough is a penguin? Or perhaps a faerie? I need to look these guys up. And add to that other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/16 "2007-06-26T20:13:49Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Are you saying that David Attenborough is a penguin? Or perhaps a faerie? [/QUOTE] No just really really hot for an older guy. British accent! There’s a scene in one of his movies when something - is it a sea lion? - attacks him, and with perfect British aplomb, he says “Now, now!” In the most scolding tone. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/17 "2007-06-26T20:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I’m gonna kill you Tuckerfan if you keep talking about eating penguins. This is your SECOND thread on it. [/QUOTE] You say that _now_, but once you taste what my mad culinary skillz can whip up, you’ll be asking for _more_ curried penguin. 😛😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/18 "2007-06-26T20:43:32Z")
I’ve already got a man who can cook like a dream; you’ll have to come up with better than that. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/19 "2007-06-26T20:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] No just really really hot for an older guy. British accent! [/QUOTE] I say. Smashing! Pardon? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/20 "2007-06-26T21:02:49Z")
> [@](#): > > And I quit reading Swiss Family Robinson when the kids started killing penguins for no reason at all. I mean, they weren’t hungry, and there was plenty of food around, they just started murdering them one after another because they’d never seen humans and didn’t need to run away. > > Fucking Limey explorers. > > (I love the Brits, really I do, I just find that attitude of that century APPALLING!) ??? The Swiss Family Robinson were – as the title indicates – Swiss. as was Johann Wyss, who wrote it. (Jules Verne, who wrote _two_ sequels to it, was French.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436.md?page=2)