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Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., CA, February 20, 2026

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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer whose crew and the scholar, Antonio Pigafetta, in 1520, first spotted huge numbers of very fat gosling-like flightless birds that brayed like donkeys. In 1781, J.R. Forster formally gave them Latin name, Aptenodytes magellanicus, later changed to Spheniscus magellanicus (Forster, 1781), now also known as Magellanic penguins. According to Wikipedia, the nearest relatives of S. magellanicus include three other species, the African penguin, the Humboldt penguin, and the Galapagos penguins.	-	-
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-	-	Porkchop, the three-legged green sea turtle at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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