Orphan Rights

Willd lifeSome speciesmight reach tensof meters long andweigh tens of tonsso they look likesubmarines underwaterswallowed him, and he wasblameworthy.”Over the centuries, thesubject of stories and realanecdotes of whales isalways appealing, andsometimes is mixed withsuperstition. Perhaps themagnitude of this animal,which is the largest marinecreatures at all, is theundisputed reason for this.The Greeks call them theKitus, which means the seamonster. Some species mightreach tens of meters longand weigh tens of tons sothey look like submarinesunder water!Scientists, to this day, facea mystery about the originsof this creature and whichanimal devolved to thathuge creature. They hadembarked on the study oftypes of whales in orderto produce a clear ideaof those origins. Experts ofanimal classification say thatthere are more than 80 livingspecies of mammals thatare classified as species ofwhales. The largest type isthe blue whale that weighsone million pounds and it isthe largest of measurementsof any dinosaur so that itsskull does not fit in any roomwe know and in return, thereare small whale that its skullcan fit in the palm of a hand.It was a flesh-eating animalthat walked on legs withhooves, yet it had becomeextinct 50 million years ago!This and other informationcontributed to the increaseduncertainty surrounding thehistory of the evolution ofwhales. One of the scientists,in the University of Michigan,had revealed that whaleshad legs and fur and fed onmeat. That scientist found afossil of an animal that lived53.5 million years ago and iscalled Himalastaias. It hadlived in salt water, in ancientseas, and the analysis of its14An Islamic Periodical Magazine - Issue No 18 June 2010