Whale Evolution 4of5

[crazy77iii]

Have they found that the Inner ear balance organ was transitioning WITHIN all of these "transitioning" Fossils? Funny how they don't touch on that other than "it was evolving". So they go from a Log legged web footed Sea creature to a Stump Vestigial, SUPER long tailed Preditor whale? This is Why Evolution is JOKE!!!

[ockap00]

kidneys filter out the salt !!!! FUCKING A !!!

[Movies4Christ]

@EternalSeptic77

Or on the evolution of the butterfly...

Great DVD resource on this for all who are interested:

"Metamorphosis" is the name of it - check it out..

[Movies4Christ]

@EternalSeptic77

Or on the evolution of the butterfly...

Great DVD resource on this for all who are interested:

"Metamorphosis" is the name of it - check it out..

[Spud13ify]

The same thing went for the descendants of the Mosasaurs with the inner ear as well. Obviously an adaptation that was absolutely necessary to a land dweller that was becoming a water dweller full-time.

[MakeSensePlz]

how do these archeologists find this stuff? the world is massive and yet they still manage to find animal bones that dont look any different from average rocks tbh. amazing.

[NUTCASE71733]

@MakeSensePlz

They make a prediction about where in the geologic record the fossil could be found. For example, when Tiktaalik was found they estimated it to have existed 350-325 million years ago. They went to that spot in the rock layers and found it.

[12ock]

it is proven all through out history.... whether human or animal or insects....... grouping together is a vital system to survive... from the harshest temperature....to extreme.. or to a human society...in mKING A SOCIETY..Or to a working ants or bees where matriarch are the leaders.....thats how we a living being survive!

[PhantomSephiroth]

@EternalSeptic77 Listen kid, if you cannot say anything intelligent or revelant, don't say anything at all. Provocations are not arguments and you're only lowering yourself even more.

[pucksterz12]

@EternalSeptic77 Then just continue to follow your bible in your blissful igonorance and leave the proven theories of science to the intelligent.

[marinebiobry]

I'm not sure the problem of competing with and evading crocodilians and sharks wasn't a problem until the era of rodhocetus! How did they survive through other, larger predators before they were adapted to an aquatic environment?

[bersa888]

Creationist, please, shut up! School children all around the world are laughing at your ridiculous ideas...

[themooddisorders]

i hope that I get discovered as a fossil millions of years from now

[N00bcrunch3r]

@themooddisorders

Here's a tip, learn how to fossilize yourself.

[Kargoneth]

I'm going to guess that the small dolphin-like creature is going to survive... sociality and all that jazz.

[Kargoneth]

Holy crap... I was expecting the whale's earbones to be massive.

[springboy9]

Now when Evolution took over Rodhocetus again, and it became a first Titan of the whales. Basilosaurus. My favorite creature too. Beautiful giant whale but dangerous to other animals.

[DireDowns]

I really admire the whales. Moving into an ecological niche, which is already occupied must be almost akin to somebody trying to get into a bathtub occupied be the world fattest man, who aggressively tries to prevent you from getting in with his large wrinkled hands. The food source, which you are trying to exploit are a number of soggy biscuits, which are wedged in his arse crack.

[Daruqe]

Beautiful analogy, man. =)

[puncheex]

@DireDowns: Modern whales exist in an ecological niche that is not otherwise occupied - pelagic fishing. No other animal that I'm aware of has to breath air and then dive to fish at depths of hundreds to thousands of feet. They've had to evolve solutions to the bends, nitrogen narcosis and lack of light.

[gregrutz]

Great Video, keep up the good work.

[LEV1ATHYN]

Man, this piece of trash TV could hardly be more tacky. It was as if they bought a case of beer for each member of the CSI editing team and set them loose on this.

[Kattarina98]

Isn't it funny how zoology always has to stick to the name a newly discovered species is given even if the name is dead wrong? Like when they thought they had discovered a sea dwelling dinosaur and called it "King Lizard" only it isn't a lizard at all?

[aldraw]

That is not true, scientific names are changing all the time as new genetic relationships or better ways of taxonomy are discovered.

For example the nomenclature of several California kelp forest species (the species I happen to study) have recently changed names. The bat star changed from Asterina to Patiria, the Black eye goby Coryphopteris is now Rhinogobiops, the Anemone Urticina changed to Telia and Califonia Hydrocoral changed from Allopora to Stylaster.

[Kattarina98]

Thanks for explaining.

But why can't they change Basilosaurus to "Basilocetus" or something?

[DerivedApe]

This is related to ICZN code (=international code of zoological nomencleture).

It contains the rules regarding the naming of new species and other zoological nomencleture. According to ICZN code the name that was published first has the always the priority. There are certain special cases where the name can be changed, however the case of Basilosaurus is quite clear cut.

[puncheex]

@Kattarina98: The ICZN will allow name change when there are biological reasons for the change, but not just because the name is not properly descriptive. This keeps name wars from becoming embedded in what are hugely ego-driven arguments about precedence. One great example was during the Marsh-Cope dinosaur wars the names Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were put forward for the same animal. Brontosaurus became popular for obvious reasons, but Apatosaurus was established earlier and is now in use.

[quinndiesel1977]

This is true in microbiology as well. The Aeromonas, Pseudomonas, and Stenotrophamonas all come to mind. As does Pneomocystis.

[kshackleton]

"disorientated"?!?!

How did that get past the editors?

[Gerafix]

What's the problem of using that verb there?

[wormbaby79]

He is right. disorientate to cause to lose bearings : displace from normal position or relationship. They ment dizzy having a whirling sensation in the head with a tendency to fall.

[anselmo666666]

You meant to use correct spelling and grammar, as well.

[wormbaby79]

nope welcome to teh internets guy!

[goodluckpeace44]

Poinggg

[kshackleton]

No such word.

"disoriented" is the correct usage.

[JBSauce]

[Grammar Nazi]"Disorientate" is an archaic, unnecessarily longer form of "disorient." The word itself is at least 300 years old, and the origin is British. Given that the narrator sounds British (or the special may have been produced by a Briton), this should be ample explanation for your hearing it in this program. [/Grammar Nazi]

[megacoolin]

@JBSauce I like the word disorientate. It sounds more complete to me.  Then again, I'm English and read a lot...

[gregrutz]

He should have said, 'dizzy'

[puncheex]

@gregrutz: Perhaps he should, but this runs afoul of all the people who disapprove of "dumbing down" the language and metaphor so that any common laborer can understand what they are saying. They walk a mighty thin line, particularly with the critics here about what and how to say anything.

[DeathSparrow]

its not a mistake, its a word that means to confuse or to make lose bearings, its more common in the UK then America though.

[aldraw]

Its the limey way of saying disorient