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Thirty-seven million years ago in the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, an animal movements throughout the 15-meter flexible with mencangah jaw, and a saw tooth die and sink to the seabed. Then for thousands of millennia increasingly thickening blanket of sediment, covering the bones of the ogre. Sea then receded and the ocean floor turned into desert, the wind began to reap the sandstone and shale stone on these bones. Slowly the world is changing. Shift in the earth's crust pushed India into Asia, pushing up the Himalayas.
In Africa, the first human ancestor walked upright and with their hind legs. Then the pharaohs built the pyramids. The Roman Empire rose and then collapsed. Throughout the course of time, the wind continued penggaliannya patient. Then one day Philip Gingerich came to finish the job the wind.
In Africa, the first human ancestor walked upright and with their hind legs. Then the pharaohs built the pyramids. The Roman Empire rose and then collapsed. Throughout the course of time, the wind continued penggaliannya patient. Then one day Philip Gingerich came to finish the job the wind.
As the sun set over one night in November last year, Gingerich a vertebrate paleontologist of the University of Michigan lay down next to the spine Basilosaurus creature called it. We were in one location in Wadi Hitan, an Egyptian desert. Fossil shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and a giant catfish bones strewn over the sand around Gingerich. "I spent so much time in between these sea creatures so soon I was living in their world," he said as he poked one vertebra at a wooden rod with brush. "When I look at this desert, a sea that I saw." Gingerich was looking for an important part of the creature's anatomy, and he was pressed for time. Today increasingly dim, he must return to the camp before making his colleagues worried. Wadi Hitan is a beautiful place, but unforgiving. In addition to bones of prehistoric sea monster, Gingerich found the remains of human bodies are unlucky.
Gingerich inched toward the tail bone, checking each link with the handle of the brush backbone. Then he stopped and put down the brush. "Here's treasure," he said. While cleaning the sand with his fingers carefully, Gingerich unveil a slender bone, its length is no more than 20 centimeters. "It's not often we can see the feet of the pope," he said, holding up the bones with both hands in reverence.
Basilosaurus clearly a whale, but the pope who had two small rear legs sticking out from the flanks, each leg of a three-year daughter. Small foot-nan's exquisite fully formed though not useful, at least for the run-is an important clue to understanding how modern whales that have been so successful as a machine adapted pool derived from land mammals that ever walked on four legs. Gingerich has devoted most of his career to describe the metamorphosis that is arguably the largest in the world of animals. In that trip, he has demonstrated that the pope, who had diagulkan the creationists as the best evidence against evolution, it is probably the most elegant proof of evolution.
"Such a complete specimen Basilosaurus is like the Rosetta stone," Gingerich said as we drove back to the camp field. "Incomplete specimens can reveal an animal way of life far more than the fragmentary remains."
Gingerich inched toward the tail bone, checking each link with the handle of the brush backbone. Then he stopped and put down the brush. "Here's treasure," he said. While cleaning the sand with his fingers carefully, Gingerich unveil a slender bone, its length is no more than 20 centimeters. "It's not often we can see the feet of the pope," he said, holding up the bones with both hands in reverence.
Basilosaurus clearly a whale, but the pope who had two small rear legs sticking out from the flanks, each leg of a three-year daughter. Small foot-nan's exquisite fully formed though not useful, at least for the run-is an important clue to understanding how modern whales that have been so successful as a machine adapted pool derived from land mammals that ever walked on four legs. Gingerich has devoted most of his career to describe the metamorphosis that is arguably the largest in the world of animals. In that trip, he has demonstrated that the pope, who had diagulkan the creationists as the best evidence against evolution, it is probably the most elegant proof of evolution.
"Such a complete specimen Basilosaurus is like the Rosetta stone," Gingerich said as we drove back to the camp field. "Incomplete specimens can reveal an animal way of life far more than the fragmentary remains."
By TOM MuellerPhotos by RICHARD BARNES
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