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." ...

"When we talk about whale evolution, textbooks tend to focus on the early stages, when whales went from land to sea," said Nicholas Pyenson, the National Museum of Natural History's curator of ...

Imagine standing on a muddy riverbank 50 million years ago and seeing a strange creature lumbering by—part crocodile, part ...

And although the geologists didn’t realize it at the time, the prehistoric specimens in the sand would offer clues to one of evolution’s most nagging questions: how whales became whales in the ...