for their natural environment, they are properly evolved, an ostrich has to deal with various types of predators that would try to eat their eggs. Penguins are not threatened by any landbased animal, however, they are threatened at sea by the lion seal which resides in the water. Penguins are highly adapted to being in water. They can swim hella fast.
They're threatened by man, and they can't escape him at all well, entirely by design.
Oh and dogplatter? the oldest known penguin fossil is.... 62 million years old
Oldest known or oldest fabricated?
The first verifiable, legitimate records of penguin existence come mid-20th century.
Yeah or they evolved on Antartica and the remains are on the bottom of an ice cold ocean or dozens of meters under the ice...
Ice is one of the best fossil preserving conditions in natural history, alongside tar and others.
The frozenness of Antarctica doubley implicates man as a penguin-engineerer - we have tons of fossils for animals which died in warm areas brimming with decompository life, yet comparitively few for penguins which surely should have been even more prone to preservation.
And why would a pinguin need to fly, when it's food source is under sea level? I suppose you say a ostrich was made aswell, since they're unable to fly?
Leapord seals can flop around on land. And men can hunt penguins.