Hmm do anyone know where this is from? It could look like a BBC og National Geographic production?

And how ironic is it, that a man that study animals from the sea has the name Fish! =)

From a PBS doco called Evolution.

Incidentally, the Siwalak Range in Pakistan, where these fossils came from, is also home to many of the Homo erectus fossil finds from East Asia.

^ hehe, erectus

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Fascinating stuff. Did Darwin himself really predict that whales evolved from land animals?

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Fascinating stuff. Did Darwin himself really predict that whales evolved from land animals?


Difficulties on Theory, Chapter VI of Dawin's "On The Origin Of Species"

"In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."

See Evolution of Cetaceans and How Whales Learned to Swim for a lot more very interesting info.

>> And how ironic is it, that a man that study animals from the sea has the name Fish!

On a scale from 1 to 10, I'd only give it a 6 since he studies mammals.

Amazing stuff!

nice.

Ahh, the sorts of things that creationists ignore. I can see exactly where they cry foul too. The section where they show wolves evolving into wales over the course of a few seconds.

The problem so many creationists have is they see something like that and think/say "There is no way I can believe that something as different as a wolf can turn into a whale, they look so different." The animation shows it all happening quickly, and that's the only timescale they have, even if they try to think of 'a long time', they think tens or hundreds of years, human scale periods. They always come up short being able to understand and comprehend the evolution of animals because of that.

It's an inability to stretch their mind beyond what they know.

Pretty incredible.

How is that guy's name Frank E. Fish?!?

spoco2 - I'm a creationist and evolutionist both, and I love this stuff.

Ah yes, whales.

Lemmie just break it down for you:

First we've got a blob in sea, not very good at anything, but at least it's alive!
Next the blob gets some fins, very useful, now it can move!
Then the blob becomes a recognizable animal with really good fins, which is excellent.
Then the fins become legs, it gets out of the water, mammals become very successful on land...
Then the mammals realize the entire sea has now filled with a delicious array of newly-evolved fish so they spend the next couple billion years turning their legs back in fins.
Whales. Nature's do-over.

Take THAT intelligent design!

Frank E. Fish is more than just your ordinary marine biologist. In his study of humpback whales, Fish has managed to make a discovery that will alter the field of aerodynamics and make huge strides in the field of alternative wind power.

Check it out at http://www.whalepower.com/drupal/

They keep showing the orca here, which made me curious... another name for orca is seawolf. wonder if that's a coincidence or related to this link?

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spoco2 - I'm a creationist and evolutionist both


... say what?