Sunday, 7 April 2019

I Am Still Trying To Get My Head,

around this one,


 a whale that had four legs?

and if that were not enough it walked on land with small hooves on the tips of its fingers! illustrations by Alberto Gennari, the creature is thought to have lived 42 million years ago, Peregocetus pacificus roamed along the coast of Peru so it appears that ancient whales made South America, and not North America, their first home in the New World, details of this discovery were published today in Current Biology, measuring around 4 meters (13 feet) in length, bearing characteristics similar to modern otters and beavers, for a not so technical read have a look here, fascinating.


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