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Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin With 'Remains of Legs'
Fox News & AP ^
| November 04, 2006
Posted on 11/05/2006 4:12:13 AM PST by paudio
TOKYO — Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture (state) in western Japan on Oct. 28, and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: birthdefects; dolphin; evolution; jpb; junkscience; porpoisedrivenlife; pseudoscience; retardedfishfrog; science; walkingcatfish
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What if these are simply mutants or anomaly?
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:12:14 AM PST
by
paudio
To: paudio
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: paudio
remains of legs....
I must need more coffee....I thought it meant the dolphin ate someone :^
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:26:14 AM PST
by
Guenevere
To: paudio
.......What if these are simply mutants or anomaly?.....
Anomalous mutation is the tool of pigeon breeders and horse breeders and dog breeders and cattle breeders and cat breeders and natural selection.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:29:41 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Rozerem gives me nightmares)
To: Guenevere
Why can't it mean the dolphins are evolving to come onto land? ;-)
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:34:14 AM PST
by
Marie
(Our enemies want the Dems to win. What does that tell you?)
To: paudio
(galumph galumph galumph)
(Squeak squeak chatter chatter)
"Dad! Flipper says Timmy is stuck in the well!"
More coffee is *definitely* called for.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:36:51 AM PST
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: paudio
"What if these are simply mutants or anomaly?"
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Or perhaps the dolphin are just starting to re-grow legs on the way to becoming land mammals again.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:40:01 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Dealing with Democrats IS the War on Terror. [Stolen from FReeper Stallone])
To: paudio
I for one, welcome our new aquatic overlords.
This is Kent Brockman signing off. All Hail Flipper.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:44:44 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Sheier Was Right
I'll find this interesting when the find a Democrat with a brain and a liberal with a spine.
Evolution of such a species could take longer that we have. The sun is only expected to burn for a few billion more years
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:52:26 AM PST
by
jrg
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: paudio
Are they the remains of legs or are they initial leg growths? Or, perhaps, this is just a retarded dolphin.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:58:19 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: paudio
What about the other way around, they are trying to evolve into being able to walk on land, or perhaps to walk on water?
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:59:29 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
( (3rd Armored Division - Spearhead))
To: Marie
Of course it does. And when they do watch out, because they are smarter than people! :0
susie
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posted on
11/05/2006 5:15:33 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: paudio
I just saw a museum exhibit of two-headed creatures and other anomalies from the animal kingdom. It wasn't, however, displayed as proof
To: paudio
Why did they cut it open?
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posted on
11/05/2006 5:18:32 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: cripplecreek
Ahhh...So the Springfield Nuclear plant is actually in Japan.....
To: brytlea
"...And when they do watch out, because they are smarter than people...! If you're sharing the water near them, their sonar can detect if your stomach is full or not! Usually, only I know that for sure.
Note to self: ask what they see in the Liberal skull....
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posted on
11/05/2006 5:23:37 AM PST
by
Eclectica
(Ask your MD about Evolution. Please!)
To: paudio
So if a human is born with flippers instead of arms does that mean we are going back to the water>?? No : Its a birth defect. One animal does not make a major find.
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posted on
11/05/2006 5:25:37 AM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Eclectica
Hmmm perhaps they could be useful! hehehe
susie
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posted on
11/05/2006 5:26:30 AM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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