As has been the well-known to us today puffin Family elk to which they belong Puffin, has always occurred in the northern hemisphere, of course, having a very different, other than today, representatives. However, today's descendant of the first appearance Puffin recalls today's gull. The creation of the living, as is widely assumed, in the mid-Cretaceous, possibly in the early Paleozoic, or some 100 - 160 million years ago. That was the beginning of the creation of many other marine and aquatic birds. The most adapted to life in water, all aquatic birds, are just alike, including the puffin. Do not use the wings as other seabirds, but mocha water in them as if they were fins. Alike, with the exception of one species, penguins, capable and able to fly. Once alike giant not only able web in the air - they were very large birds, such as seabirds, weighing around 5 kg. Lived in the North Atlantic, however, all died. There was, however, even in the eighteenth century. Last couple elk, according to very reliable sources, was killed in 1844 year on a very small island near the coast of Iceland. Puffin is not very good - you can see that, like penguins, slowly this capability. Who knows whether, if a few thousand, and perhaps for a few hundred thousand - if they even exist then - not just to walk the earth, or swim in water?