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Originally Posted by Og  Fr example, Ambulocetus natans is an intermediate form between land mammals and whales/dolphins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus
This creature dispels many of those irreducible complexity arguments about how an intermediate form would be too clumsy on land or in water to survive.
NOt only this one, but there are 5 such intermediate forms between land animals and whales. These forms (as illustrated in a pub in the journal nature about 2 years ago) illustrate the evolution of the middle ear of the land animals from an apparatus good at hearing in air to one good at hearing in water. | Here is a talkorigins areticle that discusses the land mammal to cetacean evolution process. http://www.talkorigins.org/features/whales/
Whales and dolphins are such cool mammals.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |