The evolution of penguins is major. Penguins now live in Antartica. They live in cold climates.Penguins get their food by swimming instead of flying. They were extremely different in the past.
The penguins evolved from the great auks. Great Auks flew and lived in South America and Europe. They ate fish, plankton,and fish. Like penguins they also lived in cold climates. The auks changed to penguins to live in their new enviroment, Antartica, They grew fur and and lost the ability to fly, and gained the ability to swim. The penguins get their food from southern oceans once a year in large groups.
The penguins evolved from the great auks. Great Auks flew and lived in South America and Europe. They ate fish, plankton,and fish. Like penguins they also lived in cold climates. The auks changed to penguins to live in their new enviroment, Antartica, They grew fur and and lost the ability to fly, and gained the ability to swim. The penguins get their food from southern oceans once a year in large groups.
Then in 200,000 years Antarctica will slowly start to move to South America. Thus, the islands of Antartica will melt due to the climate changes. They will have to move over to South America isolated from the other penguins
The new location, environment, of the Gentoo penguins is one penguins is one they are not fitted to survive in. They will have to adapt and change. The penguins with heavy fur will die out due to the heat. That's where natural selection will make the penguins with less fur live. They will now eat more than just fish, so they do not need to swim as long. Instead of mostly swimming they will mostly fly. They will fly and live on land in order to eat things like insects.Then natural selection takes place again. Then lastly, their going to have other animals hunt them, they are going to need to be camouflage. The penguin's, will be light blue, with a dark blue back. Its beak will be blue like it's stomach. This is how we predict the animal will evolve into a different species, we call this the Manchot.