Necropsy reveals the "fingers" hiding beneath whales' flippers! 😮
Looking at a modern whale, it’s hard to imagine these creatures once walked on land. Of course, back then they looked a little different, but as a recent photo from a necropsy revealed, whales have hung on to a few of their land-based traits, including a rather haunting hand-like appendage. Beneath a whales’ flipper isn’t the paddle-like anatomy you might imagine, but instead a pentadactyl limb consisting of five finger-like bony protrusions.
The pentadactyl limb is actually present in an enormous variety of animals, demonstrating that they shared a common ancestor who evolved to have the limb before it went off and explored some customizations. The whales’ freaky “fingers” are therefore actually a rather beautiful demonstration of the quirks of evolution.
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Looking at a modern whale, it’s hard to imagine these creatures once walked on land. Of course, back then they looked a little different, but as a recent photo from a necropsy revealed, whales have hung on to a few of their land-based traits, including a rather haunting hand-like appendage. Beneath a whales’ flipper isn’t the paddle-like anatomy you might imagine, but instead a pentadactyl limb consisting of five finger-like bony protrusions.
The pentadactyl limb is actually present in an enormous variety of animals, demonstrating that they shared a common ancestor who evolved to have the limb before it went off and explored some customizations. The whales’ freaky “fingers” are therefore actually a rather beautiful demonstration of the quirks of evolution.
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▫️ World wheat production in the 21st century
The largest producer of wheat in the 21st century was... China: 17% of all wheat was grown there between 2000 and 2020. Second place went to India (12.5%), and the "bronze" was shared by Russia and the United States: by 8.4% of world wheat production.
And in arid Pakistan, for example, grew more wheat than in Ukraine: 3.4% against 3.1% (8th and 10th places in the world, respectively)
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The largest producer of wheat in the 21st century was... China: 17% of all wheat was grown there between 2000 and 2020. Second place went to India (12.5%), and the "bronze" was shared by Russia and the United States: by 8.4% of world wheat production.
And in arid Pakistan, for example, grew more wheat than in Ukraine: 3.4% against 3.1% (8th and 10th places in the world, respectively)
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The wreckage of the car that carried Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion, Dodi al-Fayed, into a Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997
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"We firmly and faithfully stick together". Poster illustrates 3 children from WW1 Allies - Ottoman, German and Austrian.
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This is an image of Swedish major Eric Bonde smoking shortly after being shot twice in an being ambush Congo, 1961
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