Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin With 'Remains of Legs'

Fox News & AP ^ | November 04, 2006

[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.

[paudio]

What if these are simply mutants or anomaly?

[the invisib1e hand]

walking-catfish alert.

[Guenevere]

remains of legs....

I must need more coffee....I thought it meant the dolphin ate someone :^

[bert]

.......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.

[Marie]

Why can't it mean the dolphins are evolving to come onto land? ;-)

[Riley]

(galumph galumph galumph)
(Squeak squeak chatter chatter)

"Dad! Flipper says Timmy is stuck in the well!"





More coffee is *definitely* called for.

[Roccus]

"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.

[cripplecreek]

I for one, welcome our new aquatic overlords.



This is Kent Brockman signing off. All Hail Flipper.

[jrg]

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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Are they the remains of legs or are they initial leg growths? Or, perhaps, this is just a retarded dolphin.

[GreyFriar]

What about the other way around, they are trying to evolve into being able to walk on land, or perhaps to walk on water?

[brytlea]

Of course it does. And when they do watch out, because they are smarter than people! :0
susie

[WorkingClassFilth]

I just saw a museum exhibit of two-headed creatures and other anomalies from the animal kingdom. It wasn't, however, displayed as proof

[johnny7]

Why did they cut it open?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Ahhh...So the Springfield Nuclear plant is actually in Japan.....

[Eclectica]

"...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....

[sgtbono2002]

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.

[brytlea]

Hmmm perhaps they could be useful! hehehe
susie