Can You Guess What This Giant Hand Belongs To?

Darwin says: “What could be more interesting than that a human hand created for grasping, the hand of a mole created for digging, the foot of a horse, the short fin of a dolphin, and the wing of a bat are built on the same foundation?” and continues, “These various animals, to fingered limbs They share this pattern because they evolved from a common ancestor with a common ancestor.”

When animals that evolved on land returned to the seas, their terrestrial ancestors like arms and legs It is possible that they carry some traces. This creature has both arms and legs!

If you haven’t guessed yet, let us tell you…

The spooky photo above is at the Danish Museum of Natural History Curator of Herpetology and Vertebrate Zoology Assistant Professor Dr. It made quite a splash when it was shared on Twitter by Mark D. Scherz.

Yes, huge fingers belong to a whale!

This image, which emerged after the dissection procedure, belongs to a whale! They have 5 fingers, just like humans. This is whales hypothesize that it evolved from 5-toed ancestors supports.

Their fins are actually legs.

In fact, if you look at the tail fins of mammals, whales, and compare them to fish. a leg that has not fully evolved into a fin You will see that it is.

Whales evolved from four-legged terrestrial ancestors until they reached their present form. 50 million years of evolution Looking at the fossils, the oldest among them is a fish-eating carnivore named Pakicetus.

In our content below, we have explained how this is possible through the evolution of whales:

Elpistostege’s fossil sheds light on evolution.

Elpistostege, a 375-million-year-old fish. A complete skeleton has been unearthed. and its fins were found to have bones resembling our fingers.

Thus, your fingers vertebrates evolved before they left the water we have learned. This discovery also shed new light on the evolution of quadrupeds.

We can see the same situation in other animals.

Notice that seals and elephant seals also have fins. functions as a leg on land. In other words, pinnipeds have 5 fingers on their feet, just like whales!

All of these, brought together by a series of coincidences not precedents; Scientific examples showing that evolution really exists!