As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out, "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old to make the new." ...

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

The source of the trouble was a recent law against hunting whales, whose oil had been used in G.M.’s automatic transmission fluid. “The whale oil was used because of its anti-rust qualities, the ...