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Evolution of Whales

Whales have evolved dramatically to adapt to life in the water as they started out as typical land animals. It has taken 12 million years for the modern whale to become as we know it. They had feet and legs suited for walking on land. They also had long skulls and carnivorous teeth, these whales evolved nostrils that were positioned further and further back along the snout. This trend has continued into living whales, which have a "blowhole" (nostrils) located on top of the head above the eyes. One of the other many changes that whales went through was in the ear region, in modern whales, it is intensely modified for directional hearing underwater where in the fossils of early whales sound passed from
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