Whales ... in the desert? This ancient sea bed is known as 'The Valley of the Whales'

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  • In the western desert of Egypt, Wadi Hitan contains fossil remains of the earliest suborder of whales. It's known as 'The Valley of the Whales.'
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 10

  • @AhJodie
    @AhJodie Місяць тому

    So.... the water quickly ran out?

  • @dougjenks6954
    @dougjenks6954 Місяць тому

    Neat

  • @thehumancanary131
    @thehumancanary131 Місяць тому

    No wonder - dem huge whales am drinkin' all de water....nuffin left...

  • @Hope-kx9lz
    @Hope-kx9lz Місяць тому +2

    The global flood changed the face of the whole earth.

  • @oreopagus2476
    @oreopagus2476 Місяць тому

    In the program, Sarika describes Basilosaurus as "the first fully aquatic whale to be discovered."
    It's claimed that these more slender-type creatures are transitional forms, due to the presence of "hind legs" and the structure and alignment of teeth in some species.
    Given that basilosaurs grew to 20 metres, these alleged vestigial hind legs are tiny-the largest were only about 35 cm long.
    But even Philip Gingerich, the American paleontologist considered a leading expert on whale evolution, said of the "hind legs" in 1990: "It seems to me that they could only have been some kind of sexual and reproductive clasper." In other words, they were fully functional and not vestigial (useless remnants of past evolution).
    Yet Hesham Sallam tells Sarika that these "hind legs" were "useless."
    In 1974, vertebrate paleontologist Barbara Jaffe Stahl wrote, "The serpentine form of the body and the peculiar shape of the cheek teeth make it plain that these archaeocetes [the basilosaurids] could not possibly have been the ancestor of modern whales."

  • @stephensibley
    @stephensibley Місяць тому

    Mangroves wouldnt b bottom of the sea

    • @supercussion6590
      @supercussion6590 10 днів тому

      Expand your time scale. If it drained slowly(like really slow), itd be a shore at some point. Prior to that, the water level would be higher for the whales to reside. The “mangroves” and whales may have not lived together in the same era.

  • @waynelincoln6340
    @waynelincoln6340 Місяць тому

    So what man made fossil fuel machine, cause the ocean to disappear so suddenly?