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Re: Crocodile Rock
chris brochu (gator@mail.utexas.edu)
18 Oct 1995 17:52:02 GMT
In article <4632tt$ltn@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> , jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk writes:
>Put when the ancestral animal first crawled into the sea that would give
>rise to the seal species we have today, I very much doubt it had any of
>these three features either. And it survived.
Actually, it probably did - it was probably a lithe swimmer, much like an
otter. And the ancestral otter is very easily derived from a more
generalized weasel. IOW, it probably swam quite well from the get-go.
chris
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