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Ancient Four-Legged Whales Once Roamed Land and Sea

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 06 2019, @04:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the blow-hards dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

Whales belong in the ocean, right? That may be true today, but cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) actually descended from four legged mammals that once lived on land. New research published in Current Biology reports the discovery in Peru of an entirely new species of ancestral whale that straddled land and sea, providing insight into the weird evolutionary journey of our mammalian friends.

We might think of them as smooth, two-flippered ocean swimmers that struggle to even survive the Thames, but whales originated more than 50m years ago from artiodactyls – land-dwelling, hooved mammals.

There is hope that one day we too may return to our mother ocean.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @08:38PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @08:38PM (#825502)

    If whales can turn into hippos, what's stopping humans from marrying animals? It's disgusting. Athiests are always trying to degrade human sanctity... and why you ask? Anal sex.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Saturday April 06 2019, @10:42PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 06 2019, @10:42PM (#825529) Journal
    I'm just curious. Why do you think atheists will want to marry animals in order to have anal sex with them? Religious convictions?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:03AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:03AM (#825635)

      I'm just curious. Why do you think atheists will want to marry animals in order to have anal sex with them? Religious convictions?

      Really! Why buy the hippo when you can get the milk for free?

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:37PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:37PM (#825809) Journal

        Why buy the hippo when you can get the milk for free?

        Because you can't get the milk for free?