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An ancient dwarf whale sucks up prey-filled mud from the seafloor in an artist's reconstruction. Picture courtesy Carl Buell

Early Whale Was Dwarf Mud-Sucker, Fossils Hint

1 posted on 12/23/2009 7:28:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 12/23/2009 7:29:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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3 posted on 12/23/2009 7:29:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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Is this “settled science” or is someone pulling in big grant money from Uncle Sam to reach this conclusion?

(Just being rhetorical.)


4 posted on 12/23/2009 7:33:02 PM PST by PaleoBob
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5 posted on 12/23/2009 7:33:55 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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Isn’t this a recapitulation of how the first fish made a living? I.e. they were jawless bottom-feeders? And aren’t Demonrats another rehash of the same thing? I.e. they have proceeded from being parasites to being carnivores “eating out the substance” of productive citizens.


6 posted on 12/23/2009 7:38:26 PM PST by hellbender
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Dwarf Sperm Whale Skul


8 posted on 12/23/2009 7:48:48 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv

Is that anything like the Kenyan Dwarf Mud Sucker? .


10 posted on 12/23/2009 7:53:48 PM PST by JPG (Al Gore, the several million degree man.)
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11 posted on 12/23/2009 7:57:30 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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slurping up mouthfuls of mud

Every kid learns not to really eat a mudpie.

15 posted on 12/28/2009 12:48:14 PM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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