Associated Press – November 04, 2006:
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share the same common ancestor as hippos and deer. Scientists believe they later transitioned to an aquatic lifestyle and their hind limbs disappeared.
Though odd-shaped protrusions have been found near the tails of dolphins and whales captured in the past, researchers say this was the first time one had been found with well-developed, symmetrical fins, Hayashi said.
“I believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins’ ancient ancestors lived on land … this is an unprecedented discovery,”
So this is saying dolphins evolved from monkeys? You evolution types are getting more and more desperate all the time, aintcha? Any idiot knows dolphins didn’t never have no fur.
#1 – “didn’t never” ???
What did you evolve from?
an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs,
Or, a birth defect….
Maybe due to pollution?
This obviously liberal dolphin is trying to manipulate Tuesday’s election. That bastard!
It’s just one of God’s ridiculous teasers to encourage the stupid evolutionists Stupid ;-P
…didn’t never have no fur.
They came from a line of extinct follically challenged monkeys.
Maybe they’re coming back to kick our ass.
Don’t you people know anything?
God gave dolphins 4 fins so they could walk up the ramp onto the ark.
morons, do I have to explain everything.
😉
If X-rays show they are connected like a limb kinda dingy it is purely coincidental.
Now, NOTHING to see here. Move along.
And what did those feukkin Japanese do hunting dolphins anyway?
So long and thanks for all the fish……….
Don’t tell Ted Haggard, he’s already having a bad week…
There’s a whale with legs in Aberdeen School District.
7Maybe they’re coming back to kick our ass.
🙂
Tell’em to take a number, and get in line….
The whole thing is ridiculous…
“boy born with 12 fingers proof of time when humans had 20 fingers!”
wait, what?
tell you what though, I saw a fish in ripleys aquarium that climbed trees with its fins… what’s that say?
the article was on Fox news site – that means that the evangelicals are starting to turn
#14
Yeah, it’s hilarious;
“Boy born with tail in his butt”. What the hell is that?
I once saw a monkey in a zoo. And it had a tail. Frekking monkeys 🙁
I guess God made another mistake. Geesh!
now dont take this the wrong way……. wait you can if you want im just telling it like it is.
The creationists in America are seen as joke to most of the developed world! Not even in a funny way you are ridiculed in most of Europe!
I was brought up a Catholic and have looked in to it on both sides and creationism holds no water, all those darn pesky scientists with all there pesky facts getting in your way. evolution doesn’t disprove god, even pope JP2 excepted evolution as a fact. and thats a guy that you should probably have listened to.
Personally i don’t think the dolphin helps either way . and i don’t think the theory of evolution is perfect yet. but its closer than *a mystical being just made everything. there was a flood…. and a guy built a boat with 7 or 2 of every animal one. How bloody big would a boat have to be to have that many animals on! there are over 3000 different species of and alone! and what did they eat while they were on this boat! and how did he get all the animals we are still finding new ones to this day!
And most of the continents were NOT discovered by then!
I look forward to you flaming and hate mail
John
I’m confident that science will eventually prove that the Dolphins are re-evolving legs to get the heck out of the ocean.
#17 – Damn god and his mistakes. I thought god didn’t make mistakes? 🙂
Oh yeah that’s right… It was meant to happen, cause god said so.
Hey! I saw a picture of a chicken with four legs on here a couple of weeks ago. I’ll bet that means that the chicken and dolphin used to be the same animal millions of years ago, but when they evolved the chicken kept two of the legs and the dolphin kept two. Wow! Another unprecedented discovery!
Comment by I was a monkey …
Yes you were.
Wait a minute…ok, this is a tad off topic but someone above mentioned Noah’s Ark.
What always got me about this story is what was with the “40 days and 40 nights” of rain to destroy all life on the planet except for the animals on the Ark? Isn’t this God? Couldn’t he just wave his hand or snap his fingers and instantly remove all human life from the planet except for Noah and his family? He has to resort to a very slow and inefficient flood method of doing this?
I thought God was all powerful and all knowing and omnipotent. Yet with this story it kinda shows he’s pretty much limited in his power. Also, if he’s all knowing, wouldn’t he have already known that Adam and Eve were going to bite into the apple? Then why does he act all surprised when they do? I thought he knew everything.
And what’s with his sadistic tests of loyalty in the Old Testament? Let’s screw with Job’s life and see if he renounces me. Let’s kill off his entire family and make his life a living nightmare. Let’s see if we can get this guy Abraham to kill his own son just because we told him to.
And I’ve TOTALLY gone off the rails with the subject here. Sorry…..
#23… just to throw this out there.. off the top of my head… as long as it took noah to build the ark, it gave people plenty of warning. could be the reason was to give people time to see, or no excuse not to see.
#18….. accepting evolution, could not one accept that many similar species could evolve after the flood? also, many species don’t have to be counted, like insects and smaller, which would just sto-away 😉 … could it even be that ‘the world’ meant ‘the known world’ … I don’t know, I’m just keeping an open mind about it… trying not to think in the box
just… tossing stuff out there
I wish the scientific world would concentrate less on the history of the beginning and work on preventing the beginning of the end.
I’m lost. At 11 AM Pat told me that if it ain’t in the Bible it ain’t so or was that Oral or Ted or any others that KNOW what is best for me. SO, all of youns people stop this silly talk about things that ain’t in the GOOD Book. It could lead to dancing and smoking cigarettes.
U r so full of it! this probably a birth defect or some kind of deformation from water pollution! God made all animals and evolution is a load of crup!
#25, The scientific community is doing both, no thanks to religious extremists who are bent on killing off each other in the name of God.
24: accepting evolution, could not one accept that many similar species could evolve after the flood?
Given the time frame, it’s just not possible, unless the flood happened a couple million years ago, but then, most of the people who argue that the flood occurred insist the Earth isn’t much older then a few thousand years.
#24 – Which also proves that God isn’t all powerful and all knowing. Wouldn’t he already know if the people would…as you say…”see” before the flood happened? Also, in that 40 days, no other boat was around? No one else seeing that it wasn’t going to stop raining make a little boat for themselves….since it would be easier to build a much smaller boat not having to stow animals and such.
Also, of course, how did Noah get the animals from Australia? Galapagos? South Pole? The American alligator? The Salt-Marsh Harvest Mouse?
And was the dolphin land based or already sea based when all this went down?