Seals have been around for a long period of time. They've been around for over 15 million years! Seals are mostly found in Arctic waters, or far north in the Atlantic Ocean. It has very cold temperatures. Seals have changed a lot to be the way they are now .
Seals were originally land animals, at one time their legs and arms became flippers. One of these reasons for this might have been food source. Seals eat a different variety of fish , but some of these seals, like the Leopard Seal, eat small penguins. Their food source are found mostly in water. Swimming for fish using legs is quite difficult. They evolved to have flippers so they may swim easier.
Our new species will be named Seeleegs. We conducted a theory that in a 200,000 years our seal will have grown legs that look like rabbit legs, but have similar functions as frog legs. It will also lose the majority of it's flubber. Since global warming is going on, we expect that the majority of the polar ice caps will melt. So the seal will need to jump from one iceberg to another. They will also be useful for swimming. They will be able to now swim in the water and catch their food. We think it will lose most of it's blubber because of the heat. The blubber is used to keep the seal warm in the frezzing temperatures, but will have no use when it gets warm.
Our new species will be named Seeleegs. We conducted a theory that in a 200,000 years our seal will have grown legs that look like rabbit legs, but have similar functions as frog legs. It will also lose the majority of it's flubber. Since global warming is going on, we expect that the majority of the polar ice caps will melt. So the seal will need to jump from one iceberg to another. They will also be useful for swimming. They will be able to now swim in the water and catch their food. We think it will lose most of it's blubber because of the heat. The blubber is used to keep the seal warm in the frezzing temperatures, but will have no use when it gets warm.
As the icebergs melt, many of the seals will have been separated. Eventually a majority of the seals will be closer to Canada and lower parts of Greenland. Those seals will have had to adapt to their new warmer environment. Their legs will be very well suitable for swimming in the water and jumping from one piece of ice to another, as well as getting away from predators. They will also the majority of their blubber. Eventually, if the two new species were to reconnect then they wouldn't be able to inbreed anymore.
Bibliography
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Luchetti, Emily. Baby seal. Digital image. N.p., 22 Feb. 2012. Web. 19 Jan. 2015. <http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/02/22/calling-all-chefs-save-baby-seals-boycott-canadian-seafood/>.
"Natural Selection in Action." Life Science. N.p.: Holt, Rinehart, n.d. 1-880. Print
Bibliography
"Seal Evolution." Seals-world. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2015.
Luchetti, Emily. Baby seal. Digital image. N.p., 22 Feb. 2012. Web. 19 Jan. 2015. <http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/02/22/calling-all-chefs-save-baby-seals-boycott-canadian-seafood/>.
"Natural Selection in Action." Life Science. N.p.: Holt, Rinehart, n.d. 1-880. Print