Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

Early ancestors of the ocean's biggest animals once walked on land. Follow their extraordinary journey from shore to sea. Although whales are expert swimmers and perfectly adapted to life underwater, ...

Open the Youtube video It's a journey that began with a remarkable fact: the ancestors of whales crawled out onto land around 400 million years ago and entered upon a dazzling odyssey of evolution.

A partially fossilized jaw and teeth, believed to belong to a whale ancestor from 35–40 million years ago, were reported missing by locals in Tolegre village, South Garo Hills district ...

Tagging and monitoring whales can reveal their extensive migration routes, but not how far—or whether—their ancestors roamed five million years ago. UC Berkeley researcher Larry Taylor knew ...

The fossil is assumed to be of the now extinct genera Rodhocetus or Ambulocetus – ancestors of modern whales. Whales evolved from land mammals about 50 million years ago. Fossils of primitive ...