I believe the appropriate animal is the Elephant to which the manatee, dugong and other sea "cows" are related.
It is true, however, that there are vestigial structures in the skeleton of the whale that indicate that it's has hips and hip sockets meant for legs that it obviously does not have.


--I write this of course, not as an expert, but a friend of the manatees and as someone recalling something I saw on PBS about whales--so if I'm mistakenly stirring the soup again--my apologies.

Vincent Lyon wrote:

> I hope someone with the right degrees will back me up on
> this, but didn't whales used to be dogs more or less?
> Well, not actually dogs, but small furry, predatory
> quadrupeds that lived on land.
>
> Evolution is not the transformation of one species into
> another already existing species, but into a totally new,
> never before seen one.
>
> > But a sheep is a sheep is a sheep, and the frog is a frog is a frog...and the
> > sheep
> > didn't become a frog and so forth.  Yes, we do need some teaching on both
> > issues.  Y
> >
> > es, changes and adaptions take place within species.  But to my knowledge
> > there never has been discovered a species that was a frog but now is an eagle
> > or  a change over to another species that has ever occurred.
> >
> > Thanks for the posting.
> >
> > John Martinson, Curator
>
> Vincent Lyon
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