Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

    • Image courtesy of naturalhistorycuriosities.com

      naturalhistorycuriosities.com

      August 2010

      • This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thirty-seven million years ago, in the waters of the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, a sinuous, 50-foot-long beast with gaping jaws and jagged teeth died and sank to the seafloor.
      www.nationalgeographic.com › magazine › article

      Valley of the Whales - National Geographic

  2. People also ask

  3. www.nationalgeographic.com › whale-evolutionValley of the Whales - National Geographic

    Valley of the Whales. An Egyptian desert, once an ocean, holds the secret to one of evolution’s most remarkable transformations. This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National ...

  4. evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com › articles › 10From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and ...

    Apr 16, 2009 · Published: 16 April 2009. From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. J. G. M. Thewissen, Lisa Noelle Cooper, John C. George & Sunil Bajpai. Evolution: Education and Outreach 2 , 272–288 ( 2009) Cite this article. 229k Accesses. 89 Citations. 264 Altmetric. Metrics. Abstract.

    • J. G. M. Thewissen, Lisa Noelle Cooper, Lisa Noelle Cooper, John C. George, Sunil Bajpai
    • 2009

  5. www.nationalgeographic.com › science › articleBreaking the Chain of Early Whale Evolution - National Geographic

    Dec 16, 2009 · A paper just published in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology contributes further evidence that whale evolution was not set along a unilinear path. The new research ...

    • Riley Black

  6. www.nationalgeographic.com › science › articleA Different Kind of Whale - National Geographic

    Oct 16, 2009 · Andrewsiphius, one of the archaeocetes (‘archaic whales’) described in the paper, was first described in 1975 as a fully aquatic toothed whale. This identification was revised in 1998 after ...

    • Riley Black

  7. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleThe Ecological Rise of Whales Chronicled by the Fossil Record

    Jun 5, 2017 · The early evolution of whales documents a suite of evolutionary transformations to anatomical systems (and inferred life history and behavioral changes) that occurred concomitant with a major ecological transition from terrestrial ancestry to obligate aquatic life 2, 3, 4.

    • Nicholas D. Pyenson
    • 2017

  8. www.nhm.ac.uk › discover › newsWhale faces reveal how the world's biggest animals evolved

    May 9, 2022 · By 3D scanning the skulls of some 201 species of whale spanning their entire evolutionary history, the researchers have been able to pinpoint the key moments in the evolution of whales and get a glimpse at what ecological factors were influencing these marine behemoths.

  9. www.newscientist.com › article › mg22429901-600-aA life spent chasing down how whales evolved | New Scientist

    Oct 8, 2014 · WHALES evolved from cat-sized terrestrial hoofed mammals, evolutionary biologists tell us. How could a tiny, deer-like creature morph into such a radically different leviathan?