Dolphins with Legs!

[greeng]

breitbart has it, but I can't post links yet. Sorry! I just was just tripping & wondering if you guys had seen the news story yet. Rudimentary legs! (Japanese scientists were speculating that it was some ancient gene reasserting itself.)

 

[kellyb]

Can you post a few lines so we can put it into google maybe?

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227572,00.html

I just vestigial legs. Of course Creationists say they don't exist, but what do they know?

 

[Mojo]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227572,00.html

I just vestigial legs. Of course Creationists say they don't exist, but what do they know?

"But has anyone found a transitional form between the dolphins with vestigial legs and dolphins no legs?"

 

[Soapy Sam]

Like all cetaceans, dolphins are descended from land based quadrupeds which adapted back to a marine lifestyle.
Can they grow legs? I suspect if you (or some environmental mutagen) messed with their HOX genes, the answer is "yes"
I doubt they'll be climbing trees anytime soon, though.

 

[tkingdoll]

TOKYO — Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.

The scientists all agreed that the legs were delicious, and provided a welcome addition to the KFD menu.