{"id":4577,"date":"2006-11-06T04:50:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2006-11-06T04:50:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T04:50:23","slug":"dolphin-had-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/dolphin-had-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin Had Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another nail in the coffin of that silly belief that I will not mention and give unneccessary notice to:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JAPAN_DOLPHIN_LEGS.sff_TOK103_20061105021945.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/JAPAN_DOLPHIN_LEGS.sff_TOK103_20061105021945.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\"\/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/\/article\/20061105\/D8L6P69O0.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">I believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins&#8217; ancient ancestors lived on land &#8230; this is an unprecedented discovery<\/a>,&#8221; Seiji Osumi, an adviser at Tokyo&#8217;s Institute of Cetacean Research, said at a news conference televised Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The second set of fins &#8211; much smaller than the dolphin&#8217;s front fins &#8211; are about the size of human hands and protrude from near the tail on the dolphin&#8217;s underside. The dolphin measures 8.92 feet and is about five years old, according to the museum.<\/p>\n<p>Hayashi said he could not tell from watching the dolphin swim in a musuem tank whether it used its back fins to maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>A freak mutation may have caused the ancient trait to reassert itself, Osumi said. The dolphin will be kept at the Taiji museum to undergo X-ray and DNA tests, according to Hayashi.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/\/article\/20061105\/D8L6P69O0.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">myway news <\/a>and 7d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another nail in the coffin of that silly belief that I will not mention and give unneccessary notice to: &#8220;I believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins&#8217; ancient ancestors lived on land &#8230; this is an unprecedented discovery,&#8221; Seiji Osumi, an adviser at Tokyo&#8217;s Institute of Cetacean Research, said at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}