Penguins

The family Spheniscidae to all seabirds commonly called penguins. The first Europeans to observe these birds in the Southern Hemisphere were Iberian explorers, that the birds called boobies child or for his awkward gait and erect. A little later, when the British first saw these animals were called Penguins (Gaelic penwyn, pen = head and qwyn = white), which was the name given to the northern Atlantic auk (Pinguinus impennis). However, despite the apparent similarities result of evolutionary convergence, penguins Northern Hemisphere are not related to the Southern Hemisphere. After the extinction of the great auk in the late nineteenth century, the name was perpetuated penguin birds Spheniscidae family.