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The mountain goats aren't actual goats (files.catbox.moe)
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[โ€“] roz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Essentially there was a species of birds called the great awks which most people called penguins, the 'only modern species in the genus Pinguinus' that humans hunted to extinction in the ~~late 1700's~~ mid 1800's. What we call penguins today were only named that because of their resemblance to these extinct birds

[โ€“] devdoggy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Ahhhh, thank you!