A whale of a PING!................
Seahorse designed by a Congressional Committee.
Hillary has grown two more legs?
More fake science in an attempt to cling to a myth.
A newly discovered fossil of a six-legged whale in Peru sheds new light on the evolution of whales and their journey across the oceans.
Now that would be NEWS !
Something is wrong with their picture.
Life sprung from our oceans.
However it was done isn’t covered by this comment.
Now these guys claim Land animals went back into the ocean?
I know they are grasping at any straw to explain Mammals in the oceans, since most large Land creatures are Mammals and warm blooded and most ocean dwellers are not warm blooded.
Thoughts?
What’s green, weighs 100 tons, is found in the ocean and impossible to get out of suede?
Moby Snot
Rewrite ... how?
Four-legged whale fossils already had been found in Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phiomicetus
Fossils of whales with vestigial hind legs were found more than a century ago. Some of them were found lying on top of the sand in plain view. And some had forelimbs that terminated in feet rather than flippers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorudon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilosaurus
Whales didn’t “evolve” — they were created. 😉
From what little I have read, a whale supposedly has elongated forelimbs(flippers). It also has greatly reduced hindlimbs. It has a very large rib cage in relation to its body. The tail has no fused end vertebrae. From the drawing of the skeleton, it looks like the tail end vertebrae are missing. Since there is no soft tissue left, one cannot determine what this creature was capable of doing.
It appears to be a whale because one can see what skeletal changes need to be done to make it look like a modern whale skeleton. Not convinced it is actually a whale ...could be related...but most likely, not a whale. It is only a proto-whale because one expects evolution to have occurred later on. IMHO
It looks like it has heels for walking.
But since we're guessing, it looks more like a prehistoric crocodile to me.
Evolutionism is funny. Evolution is supposed to be driven by mutations and natural selection. Small populations should have little opportunity to express new mutations to be selected, limiting their potential evolutionary change. Yet they believe whale species that have tiny population numbers have supposedly evolved dramatically over relatively short timeframes.
Creation doctrine is the bedrock of conservatism, and evolutionism is the bedrock of all leftist thought. Individuals may be inconsistent about this, but it is impossible to build and maintain a consistent conservative worldview outside of a creationary perspective.
So paleontologists are now travelling back in time to make these finds?!
Regards,
The theory was whales evolved in the area now occupied by India. The subcontinent bumped into Asia and ended up pushing the Himalayan mountains to their current heights.
How high in the mountains was it found?
The closest, still living, genetic relative of the hippopotamus is the whale family!