Each discovery sparked excitement and debate, with scientists piecing together the puzzle of whale evolution like a thrilling mystery slowly coming into focus. Fossils are the rock-solid proof of ...

Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a small baleen whale, estimated ...

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

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 ...

Because the scant fossil evidence failed to suggest terrestrial ancestry, whale evolution became a pet subject of creationists. The past two decades have changed all that, and whale evolution now is ...

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 ...