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Community Community MES Indian Speaker of School the National P6organises P16 Assembly a workshop for its of Pakistan Asad faculty members to Qaiser interacts with equip them with latest community members teaching methods. at the embassy. Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Sha’baan 4, 1440 AH Doha today: 240 - 310 Fossil find Ancient whale with legs could stand on land and swim in water. P4-5 SENSATIONAL: An artist’s rendering of two examples of Peregocetus pacificus off the coast of present-day Peru. Scientists believe the ancient whales could walk on land and swim in the water. POP SPOT SHOWBIZ Jack’s album Singing to Kabir kept persona Strangers titled by daughter. in mind for 83 casting. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 9, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.59am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.19am Zuhr (noon) 11.37am Asr (afternoon) 3.06pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.55pm Isha (night) 7.25pm USEFUL NUMBERS Uriyadi 2 society. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 9, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Whale of a story Peregocetus had a long snout and a mouth with teeth sharp enough for it to hunt large animals and cut its prey into smaller pieces. Its legs were strong enough for the creature to stand on land, and it had hooves at the ends of its fingers and toes, writes Leila Miller bout 43 million years ago, when South America was surrounded by water on all sides, there lived a whale with four legs, elongated toes, sharp teeth and perhaps even fur. AThis ancient creature looked more like the love child of an otter and a crocodile than any modern-day whale. And, unlike today’s whales, which dwell exclusively in the sea, this animal lived some of its life on land. “I think they were not very good at walking, and certainly not at running,” said Olivier Lambert, a vertebrate palaeontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Lambert has spent a lot of time with this whale, which was discovered in 2011 less than a mile from the beach along the southern coast of Peru. It didn’t take long for the researchers excavating the site to recognise some of the specimen’s remarkable features. Among them: • It had four limbs, like the whales that fi rst evolved in present-day Pakistan and India more than 50 million years ago. • It was one of the earliest whales known to have lived in the New World. • It belonged to an entirely new genus and species of whales. “We found a really incredible specimen,” said palaeontologist Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi of Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, who was part of the team that reported the fi nd Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The study authors dubbed it Peregocetus pacifi cus, or “the travelling whale that reached the Pacifi c.” The name honours its role in helping scientists understand REMARKABLE: Paleontologists unearthed fossils of a four-legged amphibious whale that lived during the Eocene period in what is how early whales migrated from the Mediterranean to the now Peru. Peregocetus pacificus could travel well on both land and sea and similar to modern otters and beavers. Atlantic and eventually to the New World, said Lambert, the study’s lead author. The specimen’s fossilised remains are not only very old, they are very much intact.