In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set oflimbbones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.
To sort out this seeming discrepancy, Elizabeth Dumont of the University of Massachusetts Amherst studied the skulls and limbbonesof song birds, rodents and bats.
To sort out this seeming discrepancy, Elizabeth Dumont of the University of Massachusetts Amherst studied the skulls and limbbonesof song birds, rodents and bats.