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But once all that settles down, imagine how many exciting new species will appear after a couple of hundred million years.
Like Penwings? 🐧
WTF is a “penwing”?
There’s a video from about 11 years ago of Benedict Cumberbatch doing a National Geographic voiceover on penguins. He gets it right the first few times but then he shifts to "penwing" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlRpLGEwssA&pp=ygUcYmVuZWRpY3QgY3VtYmVyYmF0Y2ggcGVuZ3Vpbg%3D%3D Timestamp 3:17
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