Research Reveals Whales Evolved in Three Rapid Phases, Their Ancestors Crawled Out of the Sea 400 Million Years Ago A recent research revealed a remarkable story of whale evolution—how these ...

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen whales and a diverse array of toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises ...

p>The evolution of modern cetaceans (including whales, dolphins, and porpoises) from terrestrial ancestors required many drastic anatomical, physiological, and behavioral changes. The development of ...

Overall, the fossil record and anatomical studies of baleen whales illustrate a complex evolutionary history marked by significant adaptations to their aquatic environment. These findings not only ...

How Pakicetus' descendants evolved into whales is one of the most intriguing evolutionary journeys known to science. What did the first whales look like? Pakicetus (pictured above) looked nothing like ...

In the case of the humpback whale, the foetuses also show the presence of things that disappear before they are born. These things can tell us about the evolutionary history of whales. 'For instance, ...