동아사이언스

발 달린 고래

과학동아 1990년 10호

D. Gingerich, uncovered the fossil remnants of an ancient whale in the Egyptian desert about 95 miles southwest of Cairo. What was a whale doing in a desert? Well, it wasn't a desert 40 million years ago -it was an arm of the ocean that has shrunk since and left behind the Mediterranean Sea as its present-day remnant.What was really unusual about the fossil whale, however, was that it had two ...