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Origin of the Marine Reptiles 119

sounds for com mu ni ca tion and di - Cretaceous pla cen tals. Like the bats,
rec tion find ing? That ques tion is still the whales (us ing the term in a gen er -
un ans wered. Among oth er things, al and in clu sive sense) ap pear sud den -
how e ver, we do know one very sur - ly in ear ly Tertiary times, ful ly adapt -
ed by pro found mod i fi ca tions of the ba -
pris ing de tail: The dol phin's skull is
sic mam mal i an struc ture for a high ly
es pe cial ly sound-proofed to pro tect
spe cial ized mode of life. Indeed, the
its brain from be ing dam aged by
whales are even more iso lat ed with re -
sound waves it emits so con stant ly
la tion to oth er mam mals than the bats;
and pow er ful ly.
they stand quite alone. 124
There is ab so lute ly no pos si bil i ty
As with all oth er fun da men tal
of all these as ton ish ing char ac ter is -
liv ing groups, no find ings sup port
tics of ma rine mam mals hav ing aris -
the claim of ma rine mam mals' so-
en by way of mu ta tion and nat u ral
called ev o lu tion. It is im pos si ble for
se lec tion—the the o ry of ev o lu tion's
them to have evolved from the land
on ly two mech a nisms. Those who
mam mals that sup pos ed ly con sti -
sug gest that fish ap peared in wa ter
tute their an ces tors, but al so, there
by chance, and then lat er—again by
are no tran si tion al forms to show
chance— emerged on to dry land
that such ev o lu tion ev er took place.
and evolved in to am phib i ans, rep -
tiles and mam mals; and that these
mam mals then re turned to the wa ter
ORIGIN OF THE MARINE
and ac quired the anat o my nec es sa ry
REPTILES
for life there, can not ac count for
The great ma jor i ty of ma rine rep -
even one of these sta ges.
tiles are now ex tinct, though tur tles
Indeed, the fos sil record shows
still sur vive as rep re sent a tives of this
that whales and oth er ma rine mam -
group. The or i gin of these crea tures
mals ap peared in the seas in a sin gle
can not be ex plained through any ev -
mo ment and with no an ces tors be -
o lu tion ist ap proach. The most sig nif -
hind them. Edwin Colbert, an au -
i cant known ma rine rep tile is
thor i ty in the field of pa le on tol o gy,
Ichthyosaurus. Edwin Colbert and
de scribes this fact:
Michael Morales ad mit that there
These mam mals must have had an an -
can be no ev o lu tion a ry ex pla na tion
cient or i gin, for no in ter me di ate forms
for these crea tures' or i gin:
are ap par ent in the fos sil record be -
tween the whales and the an ces tral The Ichthyosaurs, in many re spects the
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