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Whales may have evolved from raccoon-sized creature




Topic started on 19-12-2007 @ 06:53 PM by watch_the_rocks



News.Yahoo.com
In the search for a missing evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with the body of a small deer.
Scientists have long known that whales had ancestors that walked on land. Now a team lead by Hans Thewissen of Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy have pieced together a series of intermediate fossils that trace the whale's evolutionary journey from land to sea.


Just an interesting theory. I can just imagine those Japanese whalers patting their thighs and saying 'here boy! C'mon!'
Makes me wonder where elephants came from. Mice?



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reply posted on 19-12-2007 @ 07:11 PM by Beachcoma



Originally posted by watch_the_rocks
Makes me wonder where elephants came from. Mice?


Close. Ever heard of the hyrax? They're thought the closest living relatives of elephants.

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