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But this is essentially what we are dealing with here when we ask if a whale has ‘leg’ genes.What if the gene is used to help produce the reduced pelvic structure seen in whales?

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Wadi al-Hitan, or the Valley of the Whales, boasts a fascinating collection of fossils of ancient sea creatures because the area was underwater 50 million years ago at the bottom of an ocean called the Tethys Sea, which occupied the space in between Africa and Asia,The whale skeletons in the region offer a glimpse into the past, as the species of whale that once called this desert valley home, the Archaeoceti, is now extinct,Over millions of years of evolution legs became redundant for the seafaring creatures, but some of the Archaeoceti skeletons found in Wadi al-Hitan have their legs, complete with toes, intact,Tourists walk around the rocks in the natural reserve area of Wadi AL-Hitan and can see the whale fossils as they pass,Despite whale fossils being discovered in the area over one hundred years ago, it was only made into a conservation area in the 80s, and it now acts as an open air museum, such is the rich variety of its fossils,Fossilised sharks, whales and plants have allowed palaeontologists to build a picture of the ancient ecology of the lost Tethys sea.Don't tell Isis. Blue Whale Skeleton: Observations and Questions Form and Function: The blue whale is a mammal adapted to life in the open ocean. Would you consider a stretch of similar DNA to be a ‘leg’ gene even if it has nothing to do with legs, except for its presence in legged creatures? If all hoofed animals have toe bones is it due to evolution towards hooves or do they serve a purpose in the function of the hooves?what if whales were bipedal land giants at one point that retreated into the ocean as the earth became unable to support such large life on land.Ooh ooh I know this!

A blue whale, for example, can grow up to 100 feet in length, about the size of a bus, but its pelvic bone is only around a foot long. The artist depictions base off of 3 bone fragments are not.Also they breath air. Shares. By Charles Q. Choi 11 September 2008. ICR staff enjoyed meeting...New Evidence Hurts Feathered Dinosaur Theory.Is a dinosaur still a dinosaur if it has flight feathers? Drones collect mucus...Have we been queuing all wrong? Whales, generally speaking, have all sorts of vestigial bones in ‘em. This ancient whale also would have been assisted by westward surface currents, which pushed it onward as it swam.Today, all cetaceans — whales, dolphins, and porpoises — are descendants of these four-legged colonizers. The hips threw me at first, and apparently there's a theory that they're useful for sex somehow.No way! … Check the display and note where the fin parts hang within the skeleton. We have just sent you an email that will allow you to update your details.Providing your postcode enables us to let you know when a speaking event is in your area. Check the display and note where the fin parts hang within the skeleton.

I did animal management at college! Your generosity will empower ICR and the ICR Discovery Center for Science...Celebrating One Year at the ICR Discovery Center.Thank you to all who joined us for the ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History’s First Anniversary Celebration! ".He said there were many gaps in the whales' fossil record between them travelling along the northern coast of Africa and making it to North America.Cetaceans - whales and dolphins - all evolved from a small, four-legged, hoofed ancestor that lived in south Asia more than 50 million years ago.The fossilised remains found in 42.6-million-year-old marine sediments along the coast of Peru have shed new light into whales' colonisation of the Americas.Previous fossil records showed the amphibious mammals crossed the Atlantic from western Africa - at a time the Atlantic was half as wide as it is now.Dr Lambert said the skeleton showed the new species had a similar anatomy to several early whale ancestors, protocetids, which lived in the Indian Ocean.He said: "All these shared features suggest similar terrestrial locomotion abilities for this younger protocetid from the Pacific Ocean, with the hind limbs capable of bearing the weight of the body on land. Since the whale “pelvic girdle” does not even link to its spine, legs attached to a whale’s pelvis would only get in the way.

Bananas, are after all, estimated to share 50% of our DNA.