Big Penguins everywhere

Humans are the ones that control almost everything in this world. We have the power to destroy many habitats. Leading to the extinction of many species."Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day"(Biological Diversity). If Humans don't stop, at the rate we are going, there won't be many species left in this world. This colossal penguin wasn't killed by humans rather it went extinct because of natural causes

The tallest penguins that are living in Antarctica right now are the Emperor penguins being around 1.1 meters or around 3.6 feet. This is pretty tall for a penguin considering that most of them are really short. followed by the king penguin, humboldt, and the galapagos (NewScientist). The Emperor penguin is tall considering he is a penguin but it is not the tallest of the penguins to ever live. There was once a penguin that lived in Antarctica that was the size of a basketball player. "Palaeeudyptes klekowskii lived 37 to 40 million years ago.", "Acosta Hospitaleche estimates P. klekowskii was 2.01 meters long from beak tip to toes." (NewScientist). This penguin was 6.5 Feet tall, taller than the average American man.

It's amazing how many species were living in this earth. Now all we have, to remember these great extinct species are their remains that they have left behind. The rate Humans are killing species all we will have to remember all these great species will be their remains.

The Day of the Dead

Halloween is awesome holiday were you dress up, and go from door to door asking strangers for candy. I wanted to know if our culture, if Mexico celebrated Halloween. I asked my mom if she celebrated Halloween when she was little, that was a huge mistake.

Dia de los muertos is a celebration in Mexico that starts November first and goes to November 2. It is a holiday were Mexican families honor their dead by making and altar specially for them. Where they put the person's picture in the middle and decorated it with everything they liked when they were still alive. Dia de los muertos is the belief that we get visited by our dead that day. People also put sugar skulls and marigolds in their altar's and in their graves, they even leave possessions of the deceased.

"The historical roots of this celebration date back to the pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso-America of the indigenous people, especially the Nahua (Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecas, Tlaxcaltec, Chichimec, Tecpanec) and others native to Mexico more than 3,000 years."(Day of the dead). The Pan the Muerto or dead bread is bread that symbolizes the old human sacrifices done by the native tribes. To stop people from sacrificing other people for their dead, us Mexicans make this bread that resembles bones of a person and powder it with red sugar, to symbolize blood. It is not a cheap bread since it is made with more eggs and more flour, than any other regular bread. It is super delicious.

I recommend everyone to look up their own culture and see what interesting celebrations or traditions you may have, who knows you may find something really interesting. I know that this tradition is just one of many, for example we Mexicans don't believe in the tooth fairy but in a mouse who comes and takes your teeth.