scienceisbeauty:Elomeryx, top, was a land animal related to modern-day goats, pigs and hippos. Pak
scienceisbeauty: Elomeryx, top, was a land animal related to modern-day goats, pigs and hippos. Pakicetus was clearly a water creature, but it spent some of its life on land and had the feet of a land mammal. Rodhocetus’s feet worked for both walking and swimming. Dorudon is striking for its resemblance to modern whales (note the front flippers and horizontal flukes)—but it still sported tiny back feet. Credit: John Klausmeyer Source: Whales of the desert (Michigan Today, University of Michigan) -- source link
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