Where was I? 3 – The answer.

Well done! Several people correctly identified the location for Round 3 of “Where was I?”.


Walking seal.

Other bloggers and authors have already covered the discovery of Puijila darwini by Rybczynski et al (2009), a transitional fossil (but not a lineal ancestor) between modern pinnipeds (seals and kin) and terrestrial mammals. See, e.g., Not Exactly Rocket Science, Origins, Laelaps, ScienceNOW, Discovery Channel, ScienceNews, Scientific American, and so on…

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