Swimming would have been a challenge, but somehow the prehistoric beast got from Asia to South America
A BIZARRE proto-whale with tiny hooves is raising questions about how whales evolved from land-based animals into creatures that colonised the world’s oceans. The 42.6m-year-old fossilised remains ofhave been discovered in Peru—halfway around the world from where these giants are first thought to have appeared, in Asia, some 10m years earlier.or its ancestors could have taken to migrate from Asia to South America.
No other quadruped whale has ever been found in South America. And sadly, the singular fossil does not tell if it suffered the loneliness of a sole survivor, or if it found a mate to help populate its new territory.
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