Four-legged prehistoric whale fossil found in Peru

“Part of the tail’s vertebrae show similarities with that of present-day, semi-aquatic mammals like otters,” lead author Olivier Lambert of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences told AFP.

“This would therefore have been an animal that would have started to make growing use of its tail to swim, which differentiates it from older cetaceans in India and Pakistan.” Pieces of four-legged whales have been found in Egypt, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal and Western Sahara, but were so fragmented it was impossible to decisively conclude whether they could swim.

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