RE: My take on Life
March 6, 2014 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2014 at 3:17 pm by shep.)
(March 2, 2014 at 9:58 pm)Spage Wrote: I'm still waiting for some actual fossils of those whales.Here was the link given:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/librar...34_05.html
Here is a fossil of Basilosaurus:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/image...jn749MVQaA
Here is a fossil of Ambulocetus:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...ocetus.JPG
I could not find any of Rhodocetus but here is a fossil of Dorudon, an ancestor of the whale that lived roughly 40 million years ago:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...enberg.jpg
Note on Dorudon the two small legs at the end of the tail - these are the vestigial remnants of the animal when it roamed land before it's transition to sea.