But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares new ... "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old ...

Thanks in large part to Philip Gingerich, the fossil record of whales now offers one of the most stunning demonstrations of Darwinian evolution rather than a refutation of it. Ironically ...

Analyzing the anatomy of early fossil cetaceans in the context of modern mammals to understand the evolution of cetaceans from terrestrial ancestors. <p>The evolution of modern cetaceans (including ...

where fossils have been found. The latest discovery suggests early whales managed to swim there from South America. "Whales are this iconic example of evolution," Travis Park, an ancient whale ...

from cats to humans to whales. Dr Panciroli said Skye’s fossils are putting Scotland firmly on the map when it comes to understanding mammal evolution and "this is just the tip of the iceberg in ...

Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was ... [+] found high up in the Himalayas. The evolution of the greatest mammal on earth is a ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and the little-known chimaeras (also known as ratfish, rabbit fish or ghost sharks). While ...

MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale and dolphin varieties ...

The Ueda city board of education said the fossils are believed to have come from a mature male whale measuring 8 meters long. “It is like a miracle that the remains of such a large animal as a ...