If this had been effected, who would have ever imagined that in an early transitional state they had been inhabitants of the open ocean, and had used their incipient organs of flight exclusively, so far as we know, to escape being devoured by other fish?
Horrelakorik gertatu izan balitz, nork pentsatu ere zukeen sekula hasierako iragaitzazko egoeran ozeanoko biztanleak izan zirela eta beren hegamen organo hasberriak, guk dakiguneino, beste arrainei ihes egin eta irentsiak ez izateko erabili zituztela?