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A penguin's northern cousin that never got the memo about giving up flight.
means Any seabird of the auk family, including puffins, murres, and razorbills, built for diving and clumsy elsewhere.
from From Latin alca, meaning auk, itself borrowed from Old Norse alka, the squat black-and-white sea bird of cold coasts.
Convergent twinsLook like penguins but evolved separately, hemispheres apart.
Flying swimmersSame wings row underwater and beat through air.
Lost giantThe flightless great auk went extinct in 1844.