From Land To Sea: How could a Land Mammal turn into a Whale?

by Tamara Schupp

San Diego State University

04/03/06
H100/M4

Whale Evolution 2

From Land to Sea: How could a Land Mammal turn into a Whale?

The evolution of whales has long been a mystery to researchers. A whale has so many derived characteristics of a land mammal, such as a large brain, it breathes air, gives birth to live young and is warm blooded, and yet it still manages to live in the sea. Evolutionists believe that the ancestors of whales were land mammals that during the process of evolution lost their legs and became adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. The controversy is that evolution teaches that the first animals crawled out of the sea onto land and not reverse. How could this transformation of whales from land mammals to marine mammals happen? What group of land mammals gave rise to whales? Thanks to a profusion of intermediate fossils that were discovered within the past few years, these......

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