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Chalicotheres: A
Horse-Gorilla Mixture?
The chalicotheres were horse-like creatures (i.e. perissodactyls); however, unlike horses, they walked on their
knuckles as gorillas do. Also, unlike horses, but like apes,
the front limbs of the chalicotheres were significantly longer
than their hind limbs. Interestingly, they started walking on
their knuckles about the same time that the first apes appear
in the fossil record. Yet chalicotheres and apes were
apparently not related, because their recognized ancestors,
the first perissodactyls and primates, arrived 30 million
years earlier, about 55 million years ago.[1] One must
consider the probability that knuckle walking evolved twice,
and that it just happened to evolve at the same time in two
unrelated lineages, which also just happened to have long
front limbs. The probabilities of this happening by natural
means are rather small.
Therefore, we may postulate a more paranormal
explanation, which involves the copying and pasting of
genetic material from the apes into the chalicotheres.
In addition to walking on their knuckles, the
chalicotheres had claws on their feet instead of hooves or
toes. This was unparalleled among the perissodactyls, and
may suggest the chalicotheres shared DNA with carnivores
or some other animal with claws. Perhaps they did not
evolve by natural selection at all, but rather by paranormal
selection, from angels or aliens that manipulated their DNA.
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