Dolphin With Legs (yeah, but can he swim any faster?)

"Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin With 'Remains of Legs'"
TOKYO — Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.

Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture in western Japan on Oct. 28, and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi.

Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share common ancestors with hippopotamuses and deer. Scientists believe they later transitioned to an aquatic lifestyle and their hind limbs disappeared.

Though odd-shaped protrusions have been found near the tails of dolphins and whales captured in the past, researchers say this was the first time one had been found with well-developed, symmetrical fins, Hayashi said.

"I believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins' ancient ancestors lived on land ... this is an unprecedented discovery," Seiji Osumi, an adviser at Tokyo's Institute of Cetacean Research, said at a news conference televised Sunday.

The second set of fins — much smaller than the dolphin's front fins — are about the size of human hands and protrude from near the tail on the dolphin's underside.

The dolphin measures 8.92 feet and is about five years old, according to the museum.

A freak mutation may have caused the ancient trait to reassert itself, Osumi said. The dolphin will be kept at the Taiji museum to undergo X-ray and DNA tests, according to Hayashi.
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See what can happen with so many years of easing the hunt off with that entire tuna in a can "Dolphin free" bullshit dogma we've had to put up with?
Man oh man, I can still recall the good old days when a can of Chunky Starkist could be purchased with extra Dorsal bits seared in Blowhole Gravy or straight up Tuna with Fullsize Dolphin Brains in spring water for the healthier among us of course. I mean, dolphin brains in oil is just so gross. Whatever sicko mixed that one is a Tuna, globby bits and toast eating hating bastard. You got to have the spring water to let that fatass brain breathe correctly and bond with the stank molecules from the tuna. I mean its just that simple.
The next step in the Evo-ladder will be baby seals with Popeye like arms able to break a skull busting hunk of wood to splinters or a seaman's leg in two with a stomach curdling crunch. Even snag the front tusks right out of a Walruses mouth in one hand while ripping off the entire mustache at the roots in the other with one blood spurting quick yank. Then we'll be stuck giving money to some new charity for Walrus falsies and bottomless government grants for lip Rogaine research.
Might be wishful thinking or just bitterness about those regulations not allowing me to wear a baby seal pelt jogging suit or decorate my car with dolphin fins. I swear it would only be out of respect for both.
I mean old blowhole leggy with the X-rays and DNA tests, pshaw. That dude went straight to a freezer stocked with ten kinds of dipping sauce. Doc Hayashi and the boys are like all of us old school tuna lovers and dying to see just how awesome dolphin leg and second set fins tastes with tartar or horseradish and wassabi. Problem is his bunch get to sample the heavenly snack of the century and we get that new here's a fuck off to you Porpofu. The tofu based treat with second fiddle porpoise oils and a lousy 1.5 percent dolphin tongue added per volume. The rectum of our brainy buoyant buffet buddies. I mean the actual dolphin rectum would be a sushi item. The tongue? In comparison that's like adding Bull penis, cow tail and the farmers boot to your best steak, but at a much higher 67 percent per volume. Seriously, it's that damn bad.
If an entire crate of fresh uncut Dolphin tongue fell off the delivery truck after being in a double wreck with a catnip van and a milk truck and got soaked in both before bursting open in front of an almost dead starving cat he would shit on each piece until his bowels finally gave out and then wonder off to die in a deep ditch to get away from that god awful worse than a mound of soiled stomach sick baby diapers tongue stench. I guess a dolphins diet must consist of raw sewage, old boots, hot dogs, bird beaks, lawn mower batteries and any given combination of fifteen to twenty rancid sauces, salad dressing, cottage cheese and milkshakes. Where all the nastiest freaky essences of every single one resides only in that fucking tongue. Who's using their big brain now huh? Flipper want a compost smoothie? Yeah you do jackass.