Buried deep within the body of a whale, underneath the heaps of muscles and tendons, lie some little, lonely bones. They are whale hips–and they are one of the stranger examples of evolution’s transforming power. Perhaps kinkier is a better word. Some 54 million years ago, the ancestors of whales and dolphins were four-legged mammals. […]
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whales have what seem like remnants of a pelvis and femur as shown here. an x-ray image of a whale tail. the pelvis and femur bones are shown. what are these structures
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