New transitional whale.

This is a nice one, courtesy of Philip Gingerich, as so often. Maiacetus inuus is a whale ancestor which still gave birth on land. Picture it as living a kind of walrus-like life style. There are two good adult fossils, one male, one female, and the female is in an advanced state of pregnancy, making three. The research paperScience News articleEdited by bluegenes, : image correction

It wasn't a whale's ancestor. It was a totally different kind of animal that went extinct because of the flood.

You forget the Good Book. It gives birth on land, and all animals that "move along the ground" were represented on the Ark. It was probably hunted to extinction by Homo Erectus around the time of the Tower of Babel. As you probably know, according to modern creationist theory, Noah was a Homo Erectus. I'm not kidding, Kurt Wise says so

That's interesting that Gingerich published this in PLoS ONE and not Nature or Science. That may speak well for the future of open-access journals like PLoS ONE.I wonder what Ken Ham will say about it......

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