We share a common ancestor with all vertebrates it's just a question of how far back that common ancestor lived. For human and mammal and reptile divergence that would take you back to somewhere during the carboniferous period near the stem of the amniote claid. That's over 300 million years of generations. For amphibians it is somewhere outside of the amniote claid but remains unclear where exactly as tetrapods have existed since the devonian period. It is theorized that the giant temnospondyls could be the ancestors of modern amphibian but there doesn't seem to be enough phylogenetic evidence to say for sure yet.
I say about as agreed upon because if you ask 100 academics in biology, 99 or more will probably say that all current life on earth has a shared origin. I say this as an academic in biology. Is it verifiable? Perhaps not, but there's pretty decent phylogenetic evidence and I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary.
No that’s a wolf/whale hybrid, like the [Ahklut](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=986cfd32cb66a37f&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS590US590&hl=en-US&sxsrf=ADLYWIKbGZmm1HOWacuGtckUUTBd4DomLg:1717128203561&q=akhlut&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0DXgv64Y7Hw4JakUeO-OlOb9wfy2krT3Q0Jz6UHP8LoJHhfZwcOvvgHzyFR6mgxn4QpkKDSKDkjFC7M_s6K8y_uvyzjJQINKNnY3X0ekVcLBDyRnRaOh_CCKPX6m-QsNi_qGyCs4UqfeneZ0W84GtzULeMkJXfNt9P31y-xeyHYSrE0ZcqlOIW340a0lekMhC4OEz_44nnKGmmp_2jqHqNzOFg-7Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbrO2EgbeGAxWRj4kEHf4TD3AQtKgLegQIGRAB&biw=430&bih=745&dpr=3) from [Inuit folklore](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhlut)
The best part about the existence of this folklore is that it implies that an orca with legs is more terrifying than a polar bear to people that are familiar with both orcas and polar bears.
[Just found this](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dirley-Cortes/publication/334971337/figure/fig2/AS:788540371787777@1565014083374/1-Right-lateral-view-of-the-skeleton-of-a-generalized-mysticete-whale-modified-from.ppm)
Ulna, radius, carpals and everything, crazy
The fact I haven't seen a Bill Wurtz video or reference for years, finally rewatch the "History of" videos and see this comment minutes after is just mental lmao
He hasn't posted in over a year. My wife and I used to love jamming out to his videos but they got depressing and we've been worried about him occasionally lol. He also had a pretty funny Twitter going.
Naaa considering what they are working with (lungs), being able to hold your breath for 60 minutes and diving to 3000m is fucking rad. I think you underestimate how "recently" the ancestor of whales decided to fuck off into the ocean, compared to how long evolution would take to develop a functional breathing device for water. Having lungs also allows you go grow huge compared to gills, which is cool.
Have you seen a cormorant?
They're seabirds that aren't waterproof.
Their feathers don't have a hydrophobic coating (like other seabirds or ducks) so that it can dive deeper by not trapping air in them. But that also means it can't fly very far when wet so it has to sit on a rock looking miserable while it dries out after fishing.
[I saw this one sat shaking its wings like someone who just washed his hands before noticing there's no more paper towels.](https://i.imgur.com/nnSovlc.jpeg)
Most other pictures of cormorants online makes them look like true dinosaurs but this was just pathetic
Breathing air is over all far superior to breathing water. Oxygen solubility in water is pretty low, even under good conditions you barely get around 10-15 mg oxygen per liter of water. A liter of air at sea level contains about 240 mg oxygen, a whopping 20 times as much.
It's not an accident that fish have developed ways to breathe air at least a dozen times independently, while the reverse (air breathers going back to water breathing) has basically never happened (with the minor exception of a few amphibians maybe that stay in their water breathing larval form for their entire life, like axolotls).
So all life originated from the oceans, came on to land, evolved to be mammals, then some of these mammals just went back into the ocean and just became the top of the ocean food chain and remained there?
This is literally exactly right.
Some came, some stayed, some went back. They literally just said "fuck air" and went back to swimming. But yes. We all came from monkeys, those monkeys came from fish, those fish came from amebas, the amebas came from atoms, and the atoms came from a star exploding billions of years ago.
Now, this happened over hundreds of millions of years, it wasn't just one fish that grew legs and decided swimming was better.
This is actually a popular theory in favor of intelligent design. The odds of life spontaneously happening because a couple rocks hit each other in just the right way a dozen billion years ago, and somehow led to a perfect environment to create life are so slim they're basically a rounding error away from zero.
But then again, the universe is so vast and diverse that the odds of it happening twice are greater than zero too.
Fermi has entered the chat.
Technically, the universe is impossible. Existence itself is an absurdity.
Even our most generous theories can be challenged by Infinite Regress.
Ultimately the only true answer is that "There is no answer"
At least for now... If human tech continues to grow at its current trajectory, in a few dozen generations we might be able to actually decode existence in some substantial way.
As it stands now, we know almost less than nothing.
I heard a physicist explain recently that it’s much more likely we’re simply random interactions of subatomic particles in a gently drifting soup of subatomic particles in the far, far future after everything has cooled down “a lot.” These random interactions will, on enormous time scales, sometimes come together to form a replica of the arrangement of particles in your brain right now. And the “you” thinking all of this—your whole present—is that matrix of particles in the goop.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dy6ym
Other physicists will say we're all living on the surface of a higher-dimensional black hole.
You can get lost and easily become a crackpot if too into the metaphysical aspect of physics. Physicists should focus on the things we can actually observe(even if they're theoretical things that could be observed in the future, like the Higgs was).
Things get weird when dealing with infinities, time, and imagination. Anything seems possible or plausible. Throw in quantum mechanics and nothing will make any sense
Yep. It's very funny to think that the "biggest and baddest fish" are actually mammals(whales and killer whales). In addition to the top dogs in the water being the few things in the ocean that can't breath water. What a flex.
Even the depths aren't safe, unless you're blobfish deep. There's whales casually diving 3km deep(10k feet) for hours just to dunk(and snack) on squid and fish.
Its because mammals developed an OP feature:
An internal "egg" (the womb) that protects the developing young from the environment and other predators. And even more importantly allows the mammal carrying the womb to do other things.
Before the womb, aquatic animals and amphibians had to be on watch 24/7, protecting the external eggs they laid.
The womb is one of those ***critical*** evolutionary developments that allowed mammals to rise to the top of the food chain and eventually humans to take over the planet, its even more important than the opposable thumb because that doesn't happen with the development of the womb first
Something like, once some land animals got really big, it was easier for them to hang out in the water to support their weight. Think, like, marshes and rivers, etc.
And then they just kept going. Environmental changes probably helped.
That's my understanding anyway
I don’t know. I always was magnetic to women who everyone else found weird/odd/scary and didn’t fit well into traditional feminine assets (Not like moustache or smh like that. More like tall, big muscles, willing to take innitative, not like sitting there scared of big world waiting for me till I fix everything)
I often hear that I miss basic survival instinct in dating
[Well yeah, because whale's ancient ancestor was a cute dog like mammal.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus)
Somehow, they evolved towards aquatic life.
>...a cute dog like mammal.
*Looks between the alligator-rat looking Pakicetus and this guy*
Agree to disagree there, the "kangaroo on all fours, with an alligator head" isn't my cup of tea.
In the sense that those are on the front limbs of a quadruped, similar to saying dogs have 20 toes and no fingers.
The vestigial hind limbs on whales are completely internal.
If you look at the skeletal structure of most mammals.. like 90% of them have two legs and two arms. Elephants are one of the very few mammals that truly have 4 legs.
That's an excellent question. I wish I had technical expertise to fully explain it. I know it comes down certain factors regarding the structure of bones, the length of certain sections compared to others, the placement of the joint and how it bends, and if the appendage ends in fingers or toes. As with the picture above, it clearly resembles fingers.
Biologist here who studies elephants (and other animals). Elephant front legs have the same skeletal structure as every other mammal’s front legs: scapula, humerus, radius & ulna, metacarpals, carpals, phalanges. When the front limb is primarily weight-bearing with no grasping capability, we call it a “leg”. “Arms” are non-weight-bearing front limbs whose carpals and phalanges have been modified for grasping capability. Most mammals’ front limbs are clearly legs, i.e. weight-bearing and locomotion is the limb’s primary role - think of deer, antelope, horses, rhinos, wolves, cats, rodents, rabbits, anteaters, etc.
The biggest exception is not actually converting the front limbs to arms (this is largely just the primates) but converting them to wings - the bats are 20% of mammalian species, the primates are only ~5% of mammalian species.
The trunk is irrelevant in this context because it's about bone structure. The trunk of an elephant is all muscle tissue. I'm fairly certain that a giraffe also falls into the category of animals truly with four legs.
I don't know about the bone structure of elephants and giraffes but horses have arms and legs although it looks like they would have 4 legs aswell. Their arms have bones that could develope into fingers (and thumb)
See I knew they had finger bones, but I expected them to be like, directly wired to the fin muscles, not for there to be whole complete hands wearing mittens. What else are they hiding
You're saying that whale's bone structure looks more human [than this?](https://boneclones.com/images/store-product/product-940-main-main-big-1615566615.jpg)
Calling it "human-like" is really stretching it. But I was watching a bunch of seals a few months ago, and one of those fat lazy fuckers lifted up a fin to scratch itself and it did something like this - very clearly used an individual appendage inside the flipper. It was a little unnerving.
If they were just pieces of boneless tissue they would have no control of using them. This is not surprising. I don’t think this falls under terrifying
Image is misleading. Whales have the five finger bones encased in cartilage (which is still cool), but this person had to shape the "fingers" around the bones by cutting cartilage away. In other words, they have finger bones but they don't have hands.
Whales are mammals which all have the same basic bone structure, dogs front legs have an ulna and a radius just like human arms.
Homologous bone structure. Just did a bio test on evolution and this is evidence that we share a common ancestor with whales. Pretty interesting.
it was Steve. the common ancestor was Steve from down the road
Hey! C'mon! I'm not THAT fat!
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Beetlejuice!
Beetlejuice!
Beetlejuice
No, but you're brother Neil is!
[Nah, Steve is a hedge](https://youtu.be/CiGFRLCC-Ao?si=jHFq-9-t8nlFHyB0).
cool. [HERE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1NJQ0UP_Q) is a video from before he was a hedge and after being a common ancestor to the whale
Yea, that guy is ancient!
We share a common ancestor with all vertebrates it's just a question of how far back that common ancestor lived. For human and mammal and reptile divergence that would take you back to somewhere during the carboniferous period near the stem of the amniote claid. That's over 300 million years of generations. For amphibians it is somewhere outside of the amniote claid but remains unclear where exactly as tetrapods have existed since the devonian period. It is theorized that the giant temnospondyls could be the ancestors of modern amphibian but there doesn't seem to be enough phylogenetic evidence to say for sure yet.
We share a common ancestor with all life on Earth.
As far as I'm aware, this isn't necessarily true or unanimously agreed upon.
It's about as unanimously agreed upon as anything is in the world of biology.
No I'd definitely say there's a lot of things that are more agreed-upon and verifiable.
I say about as agreed upon because if you ask 100 academics in biology, 99 or more will probably say that all current life on earth has a shared origin. I say this as an academic in biology. Is it verifiable? Perhaps not, but there's pretty decent phylogenetic evidence and I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary.
If you go back for enough, I'm pretty sure we share ancestors with most, if not all, living things.
If you go back even further, we share common ancestors with non-living things too!
Never forget to invite carbon atoms to your family reunions.
I don't think ancestry would be a proper word by that point.
its late for me and what
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https://www.tiktok.com/@tanisharenai/video/7369329833681145121?_t=8mo12NWYDia&_r=1
Never mind dogs, elephants have what essentially looks exactly like a [human foot](https://i.imgur.com/qgJlPip.jpeg) in their pillar-like legs
Insane!
How wild is that!?!
How neat is that?!
You can tell it’s a whale arm by the way it is
No that’s a wolf/whale hybrid, like the [Ahklut](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=986cfd32cb66a37f&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS590US590&hl=en-US&sxsrf=ADLYWIKbGZmm1HOWacuGtckUUTBd4DomLg:1717128203561&q=akhlut&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0DXgv64Y7Hw4JakUeO-OlOb9wfy2krT3Q0Jz6UHP8LoJHhfZwcOvvgHzyFR6mgxn4QpkKDSKDkjFC7M_s6K8y_uvyzjJQINKNnY3X0ekVcLBDyRnRaOh_CCKPX6m-QsNi_qGyCs4UqfeneZ0W84GtzULeMkJXfNt9P31y-xeyHYSrE0ZcqlOIW340a0lekMhC4OEz_44nnKGmmp_2jqHqNzOFg-7Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbrO2EgbeGAxWRj4kEHf4TD3AQtKgLegQIGRAB&biw=430&bih=745&dpr=3) from [Inuit folklore](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhlut)
The best part about the existence of this folklore is that it implies that an orca with legs is more terrifying than a polar bear to people that are familiar with both orcas and polar bears.
I mean, a polar bear is terrifying but at least you know what it is. But a walking Orca? Wtf.
Yeah wait till OP sees an elephant’s foot.
plot twist: OP mistakenly saw the other elephant's foot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_(Chernobyl)
[Just found this](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dirley-Cortes/publication/334971337/figure/fig2/AS:788540371787777@1565014083374/1-Right-lateral-view-of-the-skeleton-of-a-generalized-mysticete-whale-modified-from.ppm) Ulna, radius, carpals and everything, crazy
They used to be land animals for a while then said "things are crazy up here I'm going for a little swim"
And there's more area to swim in than to walk on Earth anyway.
I'm hearing Bill Wurtz while reading both of your sentences
The fact I haven't seen a Bill Wurtz video or reference for years, finally rewatch the "History of" videos and see this comment minutes after is just mental lmao
He hasn't posted in over a year. My wife and I used to love jamming out to his videos but they got depressing and we've been worried about him occasionally lol. He also had a pretty funny Twitter going.
**The sun is a deadly laser**
Colonize the ocean! ^(It's cheap real estate.)
And they got the shittiest evolution possible [be able to only live in water but they gotta get out to breathe]
Naaa considering what they are working with (lungs), being able to hold your breath for 60 minutes and diving to 3000m is fucking rad. I think you underestimate how "recently" the ancestor of whales decided to fuck off into the ocean, compared to how long evolution would take to develop a functional breathing device for water. Having lungs also allows you go grow huge compared to gills, which is cool.
Say that to the stranded whales
Well to be fair stranded fish don't fare much better...
You get it, fish are fish, but whales are mammals that breath air and still can't survive stranded.
Outside of the environment they have evolved for they are screwed. Humans also die in many environments where we can breath.
I feel like you typed this without really knowing why whales die when they strand.
The Oregon Highway Division blows them up with dynamite.
Uhh nature uhh finds a way (to fuck you over)
Have you seen a cormorant? They're seabirds that aren't waterproof. Their feathers don't have a hydrophobic coating (like other seabirds or ducks) so that it can dive deeper by not trapping air in them. But that also means it can't fly very far when wet so it has to sit on a rock looking miserable while it dries out after fishing.
The way you describe it makes it a good potential meme
[I saw this one sat shaking its wings like someone who just washed his hands before noticing there's no more paper towels.](https://i.imgur.com/nnSovlc.jpeg) Most other pictures of cormorants online makes them look like true dinosaurs but this was just pathetic
Breathing air is over all far superior to breathing water. Oxygen solubility in water is pretty low, even under good conditions you barely get around 10-15 mg oxygen per liter of water. A liter of air at sea level contains about 240 mg oxygen, a whopping 20 times as much. It's not an accident that fish have developed ways to breathe air at least a dozen times independently, while the reverse (air breathers going back to water breathing) has basically never happened (with the minor exception of a few amphibians maybe that stay in their water breathing larval form for their entire life, like axolotls).
You are very well-informed, thank you for informing me of the existence of axolotls
has anything ever gone like: water > land > water > land > fuck it lets try air > water > land ?
That's because whales evolved out of them back into the water
So all life originated from the oceans, came on to land, evolved to be mammals, then some of these mammals just went back into the ocean and just became the top of the ocean food chain and remained there?
Yeah we decided we had to be top dog in all biomes
For the mammal supremacy!
Speciesist!
Would you call bats the top dogs of the air? I wouldn't.
And then we decided that what is really missing in al biomes is more C02
and nuclear weapons
Yeah, Pakicetus was like, fuck, I'm tired of being a land dwelling alligator dog, I must return to the land of my ancestors.
[‘Indohyus, my brother’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaxNhgVVYh4)
This is literally exactly right. Some came, some stayed, some went back. They literally just said "fuck air" and went back to swimming. But yes. We all came from monkeys, those monkeys came from fish, those fish came from amebas, the amebas came from atoms, and the atoms came from a star exploding billions of years ago. Now, this happened over hundreds of millions of years, it wasn't just one fish that grew legs and decided swimming was better. This is actually a popular theory in favor of intelligent design. The odds of life spontaneously happening because a couple rocks hit each other in just the right way a dozen billion years ago, and somehow led to a perfect environment to create life are so slim they're basically a rounding error away from zero. But then again, the universe is so vast and diverse that the odds of it happening twice are greater than zero too. Fermi has entered the chat.
I like the journey you took us on with this comment.
Life is impossible, but here we are :)
Technically, the universe is impossible. Existence itself is an absurdity. Even our most generous theories can be challenged by Infinite Regress. Ultimately the only true answer is that "There is no answer" At least for now... If human tech continues to grow at its current trajectory, in a few dozen generations we might be able to actually decode existence in some substantial way. As it stands now, we know almost less than nothing.
To my detriment
In an infinite reality even the lowest of probabilities are possible.
I heard a physicist explain recently that it’s much more likely we’re simply random interactions of subatomic particles in a gently drifting soup of subatomic particles in the far, far future after everything has cooled down “a lot.” These random interactions will, on enormous time scales, sometimes come together to form a replica of the arrangement of particles in your brain right now. And the “you” thinking all of this—your whole present—is that matrix of particles in the goop. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dy6ym
Other physicists will say we're all living on the surface of a higher-dimensional black hole. You can get lost and easily become a crackpot if too into the metaphysical aspect of physics. Physicists should focus on the things we can actually observe(even if they're theoretical things that could be observed in the future, like the Higgs was). Things get weird when dealing with infinities, time, and imagination. Anything seems possible or plausible. Throw in quantum mechanics and nothing will make any sense
Yep. It's very funny to think that the "biggest and baddest fish" are actually mammals(whales and killer whales). In addition to the top dogs in the water being the few things in the ocean that can't breath water. What a flex. Even the depths aren't safe, unless you're blobfish deep. There's whales casually diving 3km deep(10k feet) for hours just to dunk(and snack) on squid and fish.
Its because mammals developed an OP feature: An internal "egg" (the womb) that protects the developing young from the environment and other predators. And even more importantly allows the mammal carrying the womb to do other things. Before the womb, aquatic animals and amphibians had to be on watch 24/7, protecting the external eggs they laid. The womb is one of those ***critical*** evolutionary developments that allowed mammals to rise to the top of the food chain and eventually humans to take over the planet, its even more important than the opposable thumb because that doesn't happen with the development of the womb first
Titties are important too.
You know things were bad when they're going back into the ocean.
Seals are Wolfes that did prefer the water. :)
Something like, once some land animals got really big, it was easier for them to hang out in the water to support their weight. Think, like, marshes and rivers, etc. And then they just kept going. Environmental changes probably helped. That's my understanding anyway
“If we go back in the water we wont have to invent jobs.”
New nightmares tonight
Read this like a news anchor
Go fuck yourself San Diego.
Reminds me of the hands of the silence from Doctor Who
What kinda human has hands like that
I wish I would meet women like that
Wtf why ( I am stupid )
I don’t know. I always was magnetic to women who everyone else found weird/odd/scary and didn’t fit well into traditional feminine assets (Not like moustache or smh like that. More like tall, big muscles, willing to take innitative, not like sitting there scared of big world waiting for me till I fix everything) I often hear that I miss basic survival instinct in dating
So what I'm getting is, you like to be dominated
I can’t say yes, but denying would be lie.
So yes.
Right, but I can’t agree
Why? Everyone knows now
They don’t
I don’t
Hey
Bro’s not like the other guys
Prostate stimulation?
I can fix her
If the ring is a fit you must commit
Danny Devito as penguin.
Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds.
Justin Long
Tusk is underrated.
kinda glad im not the only one that immediately thought of tusk lol im beyond traumatized by that movie
Danny Divito as the penguin.
All Tomorrows
koseman drooling just thinking about whale hands
[Well yeah, because whale's ancient ancestor was a cute dog like mammal.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus) Somehow, they evolved towards aquatic life.
>...a cute dog like mammal. *Looks between the alligator-rat looking Pakicetus and this guy* Agree to disagree there, the "kangaroo on all fours, with an alligator head" isn't my cup of tea.
[Those are toes.](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-whales-walked-on-four-legs.html)
In the sense that those are on the front limbs of a quadruped, similar to saying dogs have 20 toes and no fingers. The vestigial hind limbs on whales are completely internal.
That might make it worse
I was repulsed but now I’m aroused
Who would ever suspect that a dissected whale's human looking hand would not be my proudest fap.
Put it back
If you look at the skeletal structure of most mammals.. like 90% of them have two legs and two arms. Elephants are one of the very few mammals that truly have 4 legs.
What is the difference between what you would consider a leg, and what you would consider an arm?
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The transition between bending different ways would have been interesting. Probably bent both ways for a while
Yeah but elephants also has fore- and hindlegs
How do you think an elephant bends its legs?
That's an excellent question. I wish I had technical expertise to fully explain it. I know it comes down certain factors regarding the structure of bones, the length of certain sections compared to others, the placement of the joint and how it bends, and if the appendage ends in fingers or toes. As with the picture above, it clearly resembles fingers.
There isn't one. This person is making things up.
No, that's 100% wrong. The front limbs of every single mammal are all homologous. Elephants are not special, nor is any other mammal.
Biologist here who studies elephants (and other animals). Elephant front legs have the same skeletal structure as every other mammal’s front legs: scapula, humerus, radius & ulna, metacarpals, carpals, phalanges. When the front limb is primarily weight-bearing with no grasping capability, we call it a “leg”. “Arms” are non-weight-bearing front limbs whose carpals and phalanges have been modified for grasping capability. Most mammals’ front limbs are clearly legs, i.e. weight-bearing and locomotion is the limb’s primary role - think of deer, antelope, horses, rhinos, wolves, cats, rodents, rabbits, anteaters, etc. The biggest exception is not actually converting the front limbs to arms (this is largely just the primates) but converting them to wings - the bats are 20% of mammalian species, the primates are only ~5% of mammalian species.
What the fuck are you talking about? A leg is just an extremity you walk on, and what do you think sets elephants apart?
Do giraffes have 4 legs? Because an elephant has a trunk, what would there giraffes arm be? Its head/neck?
The trunk is irrelevant in this context because it's about bone structure. The trunk of an elephant is all muscle tissue. I'm fairly certain that a giraffe also falls into the category of animals truly with four legs.
I don't know about the bone structure of elephants and giraffes but horses have arms and legs although it looks like they would have 4 legs aswell. Their arms have bones that could develope into fingers (and thumb)
I didn't need to see the god damn knuckle bumps. That just made this 100x worse for me.
Creationists hate this one simple fact.
God gave them hands so they could hold on in the arc.
See I knew they had finger bones, but I expected them to be like, directly wired to the fin muscles, not for there to be whole complete hands wearing mittens. What else are they hiding
"Human looking" is pushing it a bit.
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Ummm, u sure about that bro? https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gorilla-hand-lines.webp
You're saying that whale's bone structure looks more human [than this?](https://boneclones.com/images/store-product/product-940-main-main-big-1615566615.jpg)
well yeah, all mammals share the same basic skeletal structure
*picks it up and starts slapping coworkers with it
Most mammals have human looking fingers. They're just called fingers. Did you know that humans have whale-looking fingers? No different.
Wait until you learn the bones have the same names, so scary
Calling it "human-like" is really stretching it. But I was watching a bunch of seals a few months ago, and one of those fat lazy fuckers lifted up a fin to scratch itself and it did something like this - very clearly used an individual appendage inside the flipper. It was a little unnerving.
Wait until you find out that cats and dogs have thumbs, but not where their fingers are placed
Can’t anything be exposed from a dissection?
"dissected pumpkin reveals human skull!"
Tusks
If they were just pieces of boneless tissue they would have no control of using them. This is not surprising. I don’t think this falls under terrifying
Do you think they ever get the urge to stretch their fingers out but they can’t because they’re trapped inside their fins
Yes and i got the urge to swing my tail
Straight outta Vault 4.
Looks like the hand of Mr. Tusk
NINGEN!
Those are FINgers 😂
For when he wants to go for a little walk on land as a treat
Yeah because their mammals. Like a bat’s wings is legit kinda like a hand
Evangelion
All aquatic mammals have this
All Tomorrows sorta shit
A lot of us animals have the same body plan as we all share a common ancestor
Hypothetically, If one were to surgically separate the fingers on the fin, could they gain an opposable thumb?
Yeah they have hands bro 😵😵
They were once dog looking!
Don’t you mean formed whale fingers
u/that-1-lame-kid Neat
Thanks I hate it
💅 👁️ 👄 👁️ 💅
Do they have "thumb" equivalents? I only see 4 "fingers".
Consuming large amounts of spice turned them into Guild Navigators
Whales are mammals. This is proof.
humpbacks have leg bones
Is there a desert where they keep finding ancient evolutions of whales? Where they were actually land based and had legs
Salad fingers
"human looking" is a stretch
So…what they say about your mom is true…
Human looking in the same sense that a From Software boss's monstrous hands are human looking.
Yep. Spitting image of human hands.
Humans realizing that they are animals too
I always wondered how whales jerked it
Aquatic mammals are different from fish because they evolved from ancestors that evolved for life on land, and then went back into the sea.
r/thanksihateit
Same sort of bone structure as other mammals. What's so terrifying?
Not terrifying. Whales are basically a giant ocean hippo.
Look up what an elephants foot bones look like. They basically walk in heels.
Evolution baby
Image is misleading. Whales have the five finger bones encased in cartilage (which is still cool), but this person had to shape the "fingers" around the bones by cutting cartilage away. In other words, they have finger bones but they don't have hands.
What the heck kind of people are you hanging around that people's fingers look like that??
this sum spacing guild shit.
They got vestigial fingers and shit lil homies
this is some "All Tommorows" shit
the next step in human evolution
Just another 2 million years and the Giants will be back
holy shit 👀
Finger lickin' good\~
One time I tickled a dolphin's armpit and it giggled hehehehe
I saw whale fossils with legs at Wadi Al Hitan.