The legs were too small to be useful—they weren’t even connected to its pelvis and couldn’t have supported its weight—but it clearly shows Basilosaurus’ evolution from land creatures,so that’s a giant step in the right direction.Even better, it establishes Ambulocetus as a clear link ...
Its limbs allowed it to swim and could also support it on land. It had long, powerful jaws with shark-like teeth, a small brains, and a pelvis fused to its backbone (like land-dwelling mammals but unlike whales). Basilosaurus, a very primitive, extinct whale, had a tiny head and ...
Many incomplete skeletons were found but they included, for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes. Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land. Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully ...
Gingerich picked up what he thought was a piece of Basilosaurus rib. Upon closer examination, this "rib" turned out to be a small femur (thigh bone) of a mammal with a well-formed knee joint. Strange territory for ocean-dwellers: Gingerich's team at work in the Egyptian desert, digging...
for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes.Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land.Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind...
weren’t even connected to its pelvis and couldn’t have supported its weight—but it clearly shows Basilosaurus’ evolution from land creatures,so that’s a giant step in the right direction.Even better, it establishes Ambulocetus as a clear link between the wolflike creature and Basilosaurus....
for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes.Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land.Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind...
for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes.Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land.Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind...