Whales with knees and toes? Incredible as it seems, whales once walked on legs and lived on land. Millions of years of biological change have erased the whale's legs from its body, but a faint trace remains. Hidden inside the streamlined body of many modern whales are tiny hip and leg bones. In this chapter, travel back in time to an ancient shore—the cradle of early whales—to examine fossil evidence of whales that walked.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB196X_A7