A recent research revealed a remarkable story of whale evolution—how these ... began with a remarkable fact: the ancestors of whales crawled out onto land around 400 million years ago and ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...

Their land-dwelling ancestors lived about 50 million years ago ... Pakicetus (pictured above) looked nothing like a whale, but it would have felt at home in the water. It lived on land, on the edge of ...

Basilosaurus was indeed a whale, but one with two delicate ... and galloped on land. But the identity of these ancestors remained unclear. Certain skeletal features of archaic whales, particularly ...

It's the tale of an ancient land mammal ... a direct ancestor of the whales we know today; they may be side branches of the family tree. But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares ...

Understanding human evolution through the study of whale evolution Brief definition and history of mammals How did land-based mammals return to the sea? Fossils from "transitional species" trace ...