Dolphins

[ichijoji_chan]

This dolphin has too many fins

Comments

[bubbajam]

I gotta say, the solution to both problems seems clear.

[catgirlpink]

I don't think the fins could be grafted in any way that would leave the living tissue sustainable by the other dolphin. Plus, those fins are just way too small to make a tail.

[catgirlpink]

"Experts believe that the dolphin's ancestor was a dog-like creature which roamed the earth many millions of years ago. And now the extraordinary discovery of a bottlenosed dolphin with an extra set of flippers has provided living proof of the theory."

"Each the size of a human hand, the fins are thought to be the remains of a pair of hind legs, adding to evidence that dolphins once walked on all fours."

In the context of this small article, these sound like pretty wild claims. I mean, how does an extra set of fins say anything about walking on land? I think it says more about how they may have once navigated in the water. Sure, it's four appendages, but they're not legs, they're just fins. How do they help "prove" that dolphins once lived on land? Weird. And they could also just be a random genetic defect or change.

[ichijoji_chan]

True, this dolphin provides just a small amount of evidence, but there is much more evidence, for anyone who cares to learn more about it themselves, that dolphins were once land creatures, including fossils and traits of modern dolphins internal organs and systems.

I do not know enough about dolphin immune systems to say weather tissue from one would be accepted by another. I would guess they would have the same problems that humans who are given tissues from other humans would have. I just just thought the juxtiposition of the two articles was funny.

[catgirlpink]

Also, one of the best things about that second website was some of the horrible article titles, like "Security alert as police lose a briefcase full of dummy bombs on train"