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When I was young, I went to the sea and saw the whales there, the view attracted me and I went looking for this topic to discover and took very useful information and I would like to share it with the students.

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1-Find the diffcult vocabulary.
2-Find a sentence to paraphrase..
3-Find the footnotes.
4-The caption.

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1-Find the inference.
2-The main idea.

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In 1973, this animal was not known until it was discovered by paleontologists. North America arrived from South Asia.

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The subject talks about an animal that has been discovered and scientists have discovered that it is rare and its shape is strange. They talked about its breed and how Wayne lives and where it lives.
The writer spoke to tell people the existence of this rare animal and to preserve its existence and not to become extinct.

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Seal-like whales had made it to the shores of ancient North America from southern Asia.

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The fossils are relatively rare, and hard to find, but they are there= the Whales.

Remingtonocetids are thought to be coastal animals,” Uhen says, more like modern seals and sea lions = Remingtonocetids.

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‏Hints regarding the seaside route Geological peculiarities may have contributed to the otter-like whale's disappearance.

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‏Clues about the coastal route the otter-like whale took may have been lost due to quirks of geology.

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Difficult vocabulary and examples of it:

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Difficult vocabulary and examples of it:

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Interpretation :an explanation or opinion of what something means.

Ex: He would be found guilty under a strict interpretation of the law .

Gradually: slowly over a period of time or a .distance

Ex: The bank slopes gradually down to the river.

Relevant: connected with what is happening or .being discussed

Ex: I went to the meeting armed with the relevant facts and figures.

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These whales are rarely found but they exist.

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They resemble sea seals and sea lions and they are coastal animals whose place of origin is near Pakistan.

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Formations: the manner in which a thing.

North: the direction to the left of one facing east.

Coastal: positioned on, or relating to the coastal town Synonym littoral.

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//www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whales-once-walked-along-the-coasts-of-north-america-180979027/

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Zoology is one of the sciences I prefer so I chose this topic and the animal is very strange it .attracted me 💓.

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A skull cast of a remingtonocetid, a type of whale found in Asia as well as North Carolina.

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New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt.

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A restoration of the extinct whale Phiomicetus, named by paleontologists earlier this year, preying upon a sawfish.

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Whales Once Walked Along the Coasts of North America

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Whales Once Walked Along the Coasts of North America

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In 1973, amateur paleontologist Peter Harmatuk found a strange tooth in the rock of a stone quarry near Castle Hayne, North Carolina. At the time, the tooth’s identity wasn’t clear beyond “mammal.” But just last year, George Mason University paleontologist Mark Uhen and colleague Mauricio Peredo published a more refined interpretation. The tooth appears to have belonged to a group of strange, long-snouted whales called remingtonocetids. Picture a large otter with a comically-long snout and you have a general idea of what these mammals looked like, creatures that were able to ply the waves as well as walk along sandy beaches. Perhaps that seems strange. Whales are most familiar to us as creatures of the sea, propelling themselves through the water with their paired flukes. Somehow, however, seal-like whales had made it to the shores of ancient North America from southern Asia.

Remingtonocetids are thought to be coastal animals,” Uhen says, more like modern seals and sea lions. Instead of swimming straight across the ancient Atlantic, then, they may have gradually expanded their range from their place of origin near ancient Pakistan and India through Eurasia, eventually crossing a much shorter distance to northern North America, possibly in what’s now Canada, and then moving south.

Tracing the route these whales took may be difficult. Rocks of the relevant age, Uhen says, aren’t found north of New Jersey. Clues about the coastal route the otter-like whale took may have been lost due to quirks of geology. But that doesn’t mean the trail has gone entirely cold. “Undoubtedly there are more middle Eocene, semi-aquatic whales to be discovered and described in North America,” Uhen says. The fossils are relatively rare, and hard to find, but they are there.