Paleo-Breakthrough (Seal Evolution) from an Arctic Fossil

You gotta love how people like 777tone888 keep moving the goal posts around. Damn that pesky evidence.

Congratulations! And I had no idea that seals were a land to marine transition. Fascinating!

Great video and a fascinating Canadian discovery!

As is often the case when basal forms of modern animal groups are discovered, this seems to have stirred the bible nuts into a rage lol.

even if you found a fossil of a kind of animal that was maybe giving birth at the time, which in fact proves a very fast burial, there is still not one case were the baby was anything but the same kind of animal. Any slight changes in its appearance would not prove macro evolution in the sense of differential features are found in hair color or eye color, taller shorter everyday people. Nothing giving a fact of a changing to some kind of new thing. Thanks for your comment. God Bless.

777tone888: Please try to understand. Evolution theory does NOT EVER expect to find an animal that gave birth to a different kind of animal. Please! You don't understand how evolution works. You really must try to understand it before you argue with it. You are creating your own version of evolution to argue with. Of course you will be right when you are arguing against your own misunderstood theory of evolution which is NOT what evolution is at all. Please try. You'll thank yourself if you do.

777tone888: I see you're in to Kent Hovind. Be warned, Kent's version of evolution theory is NOT what evolution actually is. He has made up his own version. Think of this: If I was to make up my own version of Christianity and argue with you about it, you would be quick to point out that I was arguing about something that is not Christianity at all, right? Of course you would, and rightly so. You can't learn about evolution from KH just as you can't learn about Christ from me. Fair point?

No "kind" of animal will ever give birth to any other completely different "kind" of animal. Your comment only shows your complete ignorance of the theory of evolution.

And, please define "Kind".

theres no way telling if that thing had any babyies at all. its just look like another kind of animal. you cant say that thing lived millions of years ago. the only way you can see that being a transitional form is in the imagination. Its there and its dead.

"thing had any babyies at all" Now this is a new tactic that I've seen in only a few settings. And just as easily responed to: As a large mammal, of course you would only find one. This is a new region and deposit being examined. However, the argument is null as we have been able to find whole communities of organisms fossilized, as well as finding pregnant females of various species. It's a nice try, but not even close to reality.

Read "Lucy" by Don Johansen. He describes an event where a number of mammal fossils were simply dumped in to the local stream because they were not properly cataloged. Evidence with out context is simply anecdote. As a very amatuer collector I was appalled, but in the scheme of what they were trying to learn and most importantly, verfiy, it was the best choice at hand.