<span>A. Acquired traits can be passed to offspring
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first presented his Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics in 1801. According to his theory, if an organism changes in order to adapt to its environment, the changes are passed on the organism's offspring. Some of his proposed ideas in the theory, however, were dismissed by other scientists by experimenting and studying of genetics.</span>
Answer:
If it´s not A then choose C
Explanation
If they were land animal and could not swim then the only logical reasoning would be that the two pieces of land drifted apart from each other and the fossils were in between them and that´s why they ended up in the ocean.
It is probably the type of environment they live in
