(March 16, 2012 at 1:43 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(March 15, 2012 at 11:22 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Hoofed, wolf-like, carnivorous mammals called mesonychids hunt for food along the seashore.
That is not a wolf, dipshit. Try a little intellectual honesty next time.
Find a phylogenetic tree that contains the clade of the species species you're interested in, and the clade of it's distant ancestor. Follow the tree to see the transitional clades, as they are currently understood. Note that this will require you to do something hard, called reading, and probably lots of it, in order to understand the material. Nobody is going to do that for you.
You're welcome.
Why do you take offense at my calling it a wolf? The point is the same. It's a wolf-like creature, and no matter what its name the problem of turning aquatic and growing 100x larger still exists. Coincidentally, your "wolf-like creature" is not even on the fossil record, so I should be able to call it what I like. It's a hypothetical land animal contrived after the evidence to fill the hole in the tree. I'm still waiting for an explanation how--or why--this type of dog would return to the ocean, and any evidence whatsoever that it did.
