Page 71 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

Those fossils to date discovered are either of land-dwelling reptiles or
marine ones.
It will be useful to compare certain features of Ichthyosaurs and
land-dwelling reptiles to demonstrate how impossible it is for the latter
to have evolved into the former:
• One of the main features which distinguish Ichthyosaurs from
land-dwellers is the formers’ wide, flat flipper -like feet they used for
swimming. Such flat feet do not appear in land-dwellers. Unlike the
thin bones in many reptiles’ front feet, the bones in Ichthyosaurs’ front
feet are short and wide.
• Moreover, the bones in their feet are all similar. In most four-
footed animals, it is easy to distinguish the wrist bones from the palm
bones. Of even greater importance, there is no flesh between the
Ichthyosaur bones. They are squeezed very closely together, providing
a hard, resistant surface. The fact that all its bones are contained within

a single structure of tissue increases the firmness of the reptile’s feet.