PBS Nova explained how a small, furry prehistoric four-legged, semi-aquatic carnivore called the Pakicetus was a direct ancestor to fully aquatic whales and dolphins. This was determined by a bone ...

Their land-dwelling ancestors lived about 50 million years ago. Meet Pakicetus, a goat-sized, four-legged creature that scientists recognise as one of the first cetaceans (the group of marine animals ...

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Here we report on the skeletons of two early Eocene pakicetid cetaceans, the fox-sized Ichthyolestes pinfoldi, and the wolf-sized Pakicetus attocki. Their skeletons also elucidate the ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in present-day Pakistan. Although it looked nothing like a whale, Pakicetus ...

Despite what you may think, the earliest ancestor of the whale was a land-walking mammal called the Pakicetus. Even though whales are aquatic, the Pakicetus was a four-legged land animal.

Dr. Thewissen's 50-million-year-old fossil -- dubbed Pakicetus -- is destined to become ... Kenneth Rose of the Program for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School ...

Surprisingly, whales weren’t always gargantuan water-dwelling mammals. In fact, their ancestor Pakicetus, was the size of dog and walked on land. Blue whales are the biggest creatures to have ...