TOKYO - Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind 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. - news item
Of course, residents of Kansas and certain other areas know that this is impossible, because these animals, along with the rest of the universe, were created from nothing during a very busy week approximately 6,000 years ago. The "fossils" so naively regarded by scientists as being 50 million years old, were themselves intelligently designed to appear older than they actually are; they were actually created as fossils, and never were components of living beings.
The only animal with verifiable "vestigal" hind legs is the serpent, which, condemned after a certain transgression in the Middle East to slither on its belly, gradually wore off its legs as they scraped uselessly along the ground.
--Our scientific values reporter
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