i heard a while ago thats there was a link between the evolution of a whale and a goat. i was just wondering if any one could confirm. and if they found any remains? i heard tell of a whale with goat legs or something?
please let me know thnx :)
2007-09-21 07:45:15 · 9 answers · asked by Genesis 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Whales occasionally produce legs, which are a throwback to when they were land mammals. Their closest living relative is the hippo. So, yes, they are descended from ungulates which would include goats.
2007-09-21 07:55:56 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew L 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
All life on earth started in the sea, in the form of microbes, actually some of these prehistoric microbes still populate extreme environments. From these plant life and animal life arose, it is therefor easy to deduce that the whale and the goat have common ancestors which, during the course of evolution branched and diverged into land mammals and aquatic mammals. But it is not said that the goat evolved from the whale or vice versa.
2007-09-21 21:29:24 · answer #2 · answered by nutty_tart42002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You misunderstood something there. Goats and whales had a common ancestor. Whales did not evolve from goats. And yes there are fossils of whale ancestors who had legs but already lived in the see.
2007-09-21 07:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by Voice of Insanity 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Someone may have said that whales evolved from a goat like animal. Actually their ancestor, ambelocetus which was a predator. It is reported to have small hooves and that is probably where the goat analogy came from. Mesonychid came before ambelocetus and also had hooves. I doubt they are very close because hippos are the closest land animal to whales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonychia
2007-09-21 08:14:09 · answer #4 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whales actually still have a pelvic girdle from their former land dwelling ancestors. These are called a vestigial structure. The closest relative of the whale is the hippo, they share a common ancestor. Evolution is very real and very true and those who do not believe are just choosing ignorance.
2007-09-21 09:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by Lee S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No connection between goats and whales at all. They have never found a whale with goats legs.
2007-09-21 07:53:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what I have seen on TV, the evolution to a whale started with a wolf-like creature who hung around the sea, and became aquatic.
2007-09-21 07:49:37 · answer #7 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in no such thing as evolution. To me, everything was created the way it is now. That's how God created it. The first person on earth, Prophet Adam (PBUH) was created a human and everyone will be human until the end of the earth.
Every animal was created the way it is now and that's how it will stay. The human was never a monkey and the whale was never a goat. They probably tie a human to a monkey becuase of the way they probably acted, like in the movies in cartoons where they put a caveman lighting a fire and burning himself, I'm sure you saw it once. If you notice, the actions the human does is somewhat monkeyish. I'm not saying that's how they got the idea, I'm just saying that that's probably the main theory that got them to think that.
So I will never believe in Evolution because of this:
Religion and the word of God came about 4,000 years ago, where people were people.
Science came, let's say about 1,000 years ago maximum.
Which comes first? To me, Religion has all the answers.
Now, in the last 5 years or so, they started discovering things in our Book -The Holy Quran that are connected to science and are 100% true. Like the steps that a baby grows and develops inside his mother's womb. Everything is in the same details. Who made this so? God. So he created everything the way it is Evolution is crap.
2007-09-21 08:05:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 10⤋
I have two in my backyard..........
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2007-09-21 07:59:50 · answer #9 · answered by muddypuppyuk 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋