- cross-posted to:
- progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33847388
“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you’re starving.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33847388
“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you’re starving.”
“Well if the whales don’t like that the water’s killing them and their food supply, maybe they shouldn’t have devolved their legs!”
…That’s probably assuming way too much about the average climate denier’s scientific knowledge or just overall general intelligence, isn’t it?
That would mean they believe in evolution
They did. Then they decided to go back to the water.Devolved. Gotcha.
I dont think whales ever had legs. the lungs were a neofunctionalization of digestive tissue like swim bladders
Whales and other cetaceans evolved from land mammals.
They have a pelvis, a rather odd feature if there were never legs
They used to say that our tonsils and appendix were useless. Biologists are very eager to proclaim things are useless when they don’t understand what it does.
What does that have to do with a pelvis? It might have some value now or maybe not, just like our vestigial tailbones which have no real use. The question here is did whales ever in the past have legs? The answer is yes: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031659020/four-legged-whale-legs-discovered-43-million-years
The evidence is that a dog like creature found in the sea has similar ear structure to whales?
More or less if you dog deeper into the study instead of just reading the easy article they are an antecedent to modern whales.