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  • the first (Proto-Whales), were most likely a very large seal type creature.

  • To the Creationists. If you dont believe in Evolution, why are you watching the video?

  • @italianppf2 haha, intelligent arguments you got there

  • Beware the Loserferians, deceit is their dominant trait of inheritance. National Geographic has an image. Merely an image. With merely a presentation they create the illusion of highly scientific professionals hard at work while making inquiry. But Hollywood always appears convincing also. The permeating subversion is of pure Sumerian Paganism...or Loserferian

    The CFR who control the universities & the UN want you to worship the Earth amongst other crap. Its why they turn you against your maker

  • For all of you evil vs good duality commenting humans, its both, we evolve both as scientists say and the religious. Why are there no mental WITH emotional intelligence on this planet... i guess we are rare as this whale hehehehehe. Give up duality, wake up.

  • Hey magical morpheus shaman, you've been indulging in too many Haitian magical mud cakes. Eating mud isn't good for your "rare" brain disorder

    Perhaps, some day you'll wake up and realize that to straddle the fence is impossible. You're either on this side or that one & the fact that you consider the non ape, religious to be guided merely by emotion, indicates that you are entirely on the dumb ape side

    However, Crows hang out over here on our side. Being that even they are smarter than apes

  • Archaeologists dig up the remains of past peoples and cultures. This guy is a palaeontologist.

  • 46/2=?

  • I AGREE WITH slashGNR212 BUT KORAN IS ALSO CORRECT BUT HBARFAN COULD NOT UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING ACTUALLY POINTED IN KORAN SO THE PROBLEM ARISES

  • I was looking forward to reading an interesting discussion ABOUT these whales, but as usual, my hopes are in vain...because of course we ALWAYS have to fight about faith on National Geographic videos!

  • this is too short where are the rest?

  • to be successful in life you need to know ur facts and have a little bit of faith, u can't rely on only one

  • Why is it that every video with anything to do with evolution has to turn into a Jesus/Bible vs. scientific/evolution debate? Enough already! If you don't believe in science then what are you doing on the National Geographic channel? There has to be a Pat Robertson channel on here somewhere...

  • @Yabbablabba i belive in religon but i watch this because it is very cool and beutiful.

  • The evolution doesn't mean that the bible is not true, and opposite. The problem is that evolutionists are atheists, and creationists are extremists. But if we look closely both sides we can see that both theories agree.

  • I would like to say, before anything else, that nearly everyone on here needs to learn what it is to have an intelligent discussion. This doesn't include name calling or insisting that you're right. Just because one person believes one thing and another the complete opposite does not mean one of the two is stupid. People are entitled to their opinions. Learn to have some respect.

  • Totaly true!

  • i never thought that fish have feet.

  • fully equatic?

  • So when did this creature become a mammal? In the Ocean? If true that would be a bomb-shell...

  • The Whale didn't "become" a mammal in the Ocean. It was a land living mammal before it went into the water and evolved a body form suitable for a new aquatic existence.... and the transitionary bones from Pakistan prove it happened, just as had been suspected.

    Note: What makes an animal a mammal is bearing live young that are suckled at the breast, same as us.... (same as dogs, cats, pigs, cows etc. etc. etc)

  • huge ass whale mate

  • I prefer my whale bones young and full of delicious soul replenishing marrow.

  • Rejecting evolution without examining the evidence is like denying the sky is blue and refusing to look up. Evoution is a fact - it forms the very foundation of modern biology.

    It would be really great if you people would stop equating your ignorance with virtue and educate yourselves on the matter. Integrity is the first step, the rest follows naturally.

  • i love the animationn of the whale changing

  • of cos it didn't give birth to a whale lol, the change happened gradually and slowly over 3million years, a perfect example of slow change would be someone giving birth to say a child with diff colour hair or taller, or can run faster (this would happen due to small changes in muscle/bone structure).

    I highly recommend you get a good book that explains natural selection, you clearly have no idea

  • While there are mutations constantly occuring in nature the evolutionary theory suggests an accumulation of small traits amassing over time. You need to study the evolutionary theory. If you did you would not the malarky to it that you do. "Dog giving birth to a monkey" that sounds more like something you'ed read in the bible.

  • you have absolutely no understanding of the theory of evolution and have dismissed as being false without looking into it yourself because your so brainwashed by your religion and take every word your religion says to be fact

  • Its funny when religious people ask for proof and reasoning when it comes to evolution but refute the very ideas when it comes to their religion.

  • Talk about unique! haha I have a friend who does these kinds of videos! that's cool to see someone else do it. but make more! haha

  • If you've ever seen a really out of shape person swimming before, it all starts to make sense. At a certain point you reach a state beyond buoyancy where you can be free to dive around and explore. You do have to come up for air once in awhile which can be a pain until your cornhole becomes a blowhole.

  • i think i once caught the largest minnow in the world

  • if you don't dance around in circles and howl at the moon RIGHT NOW a monster will appear and eat you, DO IT!! OR YOU WILL BE EATEN! BELIEVE ME OR ElSE YOU WILL BE EATEN TOO!!!

    see... fear doesn't work on you... what makes you think it'll work on me? using fear to get people to do what you want... isn't there a term for that? isn't that kind of like terrorism? .. no no.. its not like terrorism.. it IS terrorism.

  • GOD doesn't exixt. It is just figment of human imagination to relieve fear of death and siese power over the populace. Evolution by natural selection is the reason we and all other life forms are here. Evolution ensures the survival of individuals that best suits an environment if you don't you dies. That' is the creation force of life. Evolution explains every aspect of biological life. Religin is just a set of tales that festers hate and fear. It prohibits fear and prevents understanding.

  • riight.. 4 billion people on this planet are wrong....

  • Why is that hard to believe?

  • there's a reason why they call it the "greatest story ever told"

  • Yeah, that's what some people call the bible and the resurection of Chrst as well. Billions of people believe in that. At least there's hard core solid proof for evolution.

  • yes I was referring to the bible, I messed up on a reply :/ ... I've heard that term for it used often , and I don't think anyone can deny that it's not accurate , the bible is the greatest story ever told, it's just a lot of artistic license gone into writing it ... A LOT!

  • Umm...you're not smart or qualified enough to make this statement.

  • lol! Whatever helps you sleep at night.

  • Where did you hear that?

  • they probably heard it here on youtube... this place propagates many a dumb idea.

  • Have you seen it proven false? I mean, it's not to say the theory of evolution is perfect. Nothing ever is. But, it has kept up and explained things really well. Besides, can you prove it false without having to rely on other creationists, who are obviously lying, that say they have proof that it's false?

  • He doubted his theory because he didn't know the mechanism that drove evolution. Not long after, Mendel discovered it... genetics.

  • Maybe you should learn how to spell Darwin before you try to make unqualified statements about his work, moron.

  • God hater? Hardly. I tend to reserve my contempt for things that are in some way relevant (beginning with existence as a minimum requirement).

    As for sin, I reject such arbitrary notions entirely. I prefer to focus on ethics, reciprocity, and mutal empathy - things that your ilk seems ignore.

  • wow whales came from land if only the vidio was longer

  • any good soul might know the name of the soundtrack used for the first 1.34 minutes

  • Evolution

  • man this pisses me off, why cant these videos be longer. what was the thing in their ear that made them so successful?

  • I think these are teasers to get you to buy the cable channel or maybe visit thier website to see the rest.

  • So, why do you keep it going...Are you really that scared some red haired no ear/nose girl in gonna come knife you ROFL! Loser, you sound like a little girl.

  • LOL at the advertising in the beginning 'BEAUTIFUL PAKISTANI WOMEN'

  • Evolution is in the bible... read....

  • Believe to the Bible, the creationosm if it makes you happy but leave other in peace,

    first, in the wolrd the Bible hasen't got the monopoly of the religions

    You can even believe the globe is plate if it make you more happy, but leave us to follow science to progress.

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  • insane mad crazy wowz

  • This is one of my favourite paleofauna.

  • wow, whale is amazing creature, mammal live in water.

  • lol the church didn't believe in evolution till a few years ago.

  • most churches still dont, and never will, some people flat out deny evolution because it contradicts the bible, people  i know. theyre good people but its still funny

  • it doesn't contradict the bible, that's a fallacious misunderstanding

  • it does contradict the time frame that the bible presets itself, seeing as how, according to the bible, the world is like barely 6-9000 years old,

    evolution and stuff jus wont happen in that time frame, so they choose not to believe it, when it obviosly makes sense

    this is people i know talkin, i dont care much for it

  • though there are those who would disagree. the bible does'nt give a time frame.

  • The church still doesn't believe in evolution.

    They call it "evilution"

  • =The church still doesn't believe in evolution=

    Actually, most Christian congregations across the world are FULLY AWARE that "Evolution by Natural Selection" is how all the different species arose on the planet.

    It is just perversely ignorant Fundamentalists, concentrated in some of the States and backward parts of Canada, that have had a hard time getting with the program.

  • very good video

  • LOL when the tail bone was growing it scared me

  • nature is really cool. I can't believe that a desert was once home to a deep sea...weird

  • wow

  • Religulous.

  • grandfather?

    youre gona have to think more than 2 generations back.

    try thinking in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of generations and then maybe you'll be able to comprehend how it works.

  • no such thing as evolution?! in that case there would be no aids. since that virus isn't evolving at all!

    evolution doesn't say we came from monkeys...

    get an education why don't you...you failed being Asian.  you are here by disqualified to be Asian.

  • now i want to know what created the platepuss,what it derived from?.lol.

  • Wow it must be really hard to dig in the desert. I wonder what they did for water? I would love to see more from this find if they would post it online.

  • Coolest NG clip I've seen so far IMO. The whale and dolphin lineages are very interesting to me, and this pretty much finished the first story/

    Now do dolphins! ^.^

  • amazing!

  • What is it about the inner ear of the whale and it's teeth structure which hastened its success in the ocean?

  • Guess we have to watch the whole program to find out!

  • Aw, it looks like they cut out the cool part. They hardly touched on the details of these transitional species, such as the observed inner ear transformation from land to aquatic life, the gradual evolution of the nostril to blow hole, or the shrinking of the hind legs into the vestigial stumps they are today. :(

  • Are they ever going to show it again, or must I buy it? I'm really interested in this sort of thing and have been following it for awhile. I feel behind that I haven't been for the past year or so. was this a recent program I just missed?

  • Hm? I didn't actually see it, it's just the direction this seemed to be going before it cut out, and those are some interesting things I presume they would have explained. This is supposed to be an ad for the show, but they don't even say what the name or episode of the show is.. so.. dunno.

  • looks like an otter with a longer head sort of

  • first of all learn what a theory means.

    second of all scientific advances is build on proven theories. learn how scientific method before you run your mouth.

  • Hey Ron, don't be upset b/c you were wrong about carbon dating. Just keep asking questions.

    Just as a precursor let me say that there are many different fields in science, all of them individually confirm evolution.

    It's something that is truly beautiful, and awe inspiring.

  • i can watch these national geographic clips all day!

  • lol, same here. Some of these videos are just freaking amazing.

  • And there is a yet another transitional whale fossil - Maiacetus inuus.

    Paper was published today (feb. 4. 2009).

  • where is the rest?

  • I JUST read about this lol

  • Carbon dating is NOT used to date fossils, there is no carbon in it!

    Decay rates are constant, we have never observed them to change, not in a way that would affect the accuracy of dating methods.

    Isochron dating eliminates the need of initial conditions and it can detect contaminated samples.

    Plus radio-active dating methods are confirmed by non-radioactive dating methods.

    Scientists know the limits of dating methods and know how to use them.

  • youre wasting your breath... or fingers typing. hes not going to get it.

  • dls412: You are probably right, but it is worth a try...

  • what a load of lies. carbon dating are use on things with carbon in it... and the test will have to be double blind test, cross check with independent laps. IF there is contamination and were used in the dating it will quickly became clear when the laps compare the results. kent (a self proclaim "scientist") used carbon dating on fossils..... you should just disregard what he have to say about ANYTHING if you knew anything about carbon dating lol

  • My bad my computers sound was gay and not this film formally retract my naive previous comment

  • gosh darn gay computers :)

  • sound levels are gay

  • That makes no sense. Your University shouldnt be asking those things to date anything.

    Different dating methods are more effective for certain time periods. Maybe thats why they are asking you those details? So they save time if you already have an idea of what the results may look like?

  • you is dumb fuck =)

  • no retard. they ask for the location because if it was near active volcano or arctic waters it can screw with the carbon. second of all a 30 million year old fossil can't be carbon dated... BECAUSE THERE IS NO FUCKING CARBON IN IT. stop making up facts, that bs was made up by kent and you swallowed it. sad, both of you have no idea how science works. what a load of fail, all creationist do is repeat the lies again and again and hope people buy it.

  • Nice.

  • nat geo should just upload full episodes

  • There is no link, only parallel develop

  • That land version looks like Rattrap.

  • it looked like a water shrew

  • 13 or 14 or 15 to comment!! i always get one of the frist to comment on NG vids

  • why does it matter?

  • so wait.....according to this some species went from water to land then back to water?

  • yup!

  • yeah, animals evolved out of the water, then some species (of mammals), through natural selection, evolved better to live in the water, i.e. dolphins and whales

  • well not technically true, the exact whale species did not exactly evolve out of water, but merely it's ancestors a long time ago might have.

  • The captioning sound effect is weird.

  • The first thing is gay

  • That's an understatement.

  • HAMAGAD?

  • 1st is gay

  • thats probably why they put ... instead of  1st!

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