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

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: 3, Funny) by darkfeline on Saturday April 06 2019, @10:54PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday April 06 2019, @10:54PM (#825535) Homepage

    Pre-whales, circa 50,000,000 BC:

    "Alright, fuck all of you land humpers, we're going back to the sea."

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