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- Whales Have Tiny Leg Bones Because Their Ancestors Walked on Land
Whales’ tiny leg bones are silent witnesses to an epic journey from land to sea These vestigial structures, hidden deep within the largest animals on Earth, reveal a story of gradual change, adaptation, and survival
- Modern Whales with Vestigial legs Myth? - Biology Stack Exchange
Is it a myth that modern whales have been found with hind legs sticking out of their sides and full formed tibias, fibias, and toe bones? I keep finding assertions, but no citations For example, the
- True Vestigial Structures in Whales and Dolphins
Among the vestigial structures in cetaceans that he accepts are vestigial hind limbs He is aware of six cases in sperm whales alone One in particular, which was later passed on to him for personal study, he discusses on page 242
- When whales walked on four legs - Natural History Museum
Early ancestors of modern whales once walked on four legs One relative of whales was Pakicetus, which lived 50 million years ago
- The hind legs of whales - Why Evolution Is True
Whales have lost their hind legs (the front ones are now their flippers), and we have a pretty good fossil record of how they did so, thanks in large part to the work of Phil Gingerich of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (see his great whale evolution site here) and his collaborators
- These Hips Don’t Lie! The Evolution of Whales - Whale Scientists
The next time you see a whale skeleton, look for mysterious “free-floating” bones These levitating bones are evidence that whales once had hips and walked on land! Scientists call them vestigial (or left-over) structures An example of a vestigial structure in humans is wisdom teeth The Cetacean Division
- When Whales Had Legs - Scientific American
Indeed, the earliest known whales, which date back as far as 50 million years ago, had well-developed hindlimbs and are believed by most paleontologists to have evolved from four-legged
- Is the Whale Pelvis a Vestige of Evolution? - Reasons to Believe
Evolutionary biologists like to point to vestigial structures—such as the pelvis and hind limbs of whales and dolphins (cetaceans)—as compelling evidence for biological evolution
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