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.

A comparison of the third molars ... including some that represent two new species of Pakicetus. The restored, partial upper tooth row of a pakicetid whale made from a composite of teeth from ...

It's proof of pakicetus' pedigree. - This bone was the key to understanding that pakicetus is a whale. Well, that made it the oldest fossil whale anybody ever found. - [Narrator] It was ...

Let's be honest: If you could really sponsor the care of a Pakicetus, and write the so-called "walking whale" of the Eocene Epoch a love letter, you'd have, shall we say, a few candles on your ...

PBS Nova explained how a small, furry prehistoric four-legged, semi-aquatic carnivore called the Pakicetus was a direct ... this animal was a walking whale. When you look at this covering, bone ...

Pakicetus is a species of early whale that has only been known since ... Hundreds of thousands of whales are killed every year as compared to the few thousand killed by the whaling industry.

What did the first whales look like? Pakicetus (pictured above) looked nothing like a whale, but it would have felt at home in the water. It lived on land, on the edge of lakes and riverbanks in what ...

Top Image: A cast of the reconstructed skeleton of the early whale Pakicetus at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Photo by the author. References: Gingerich, P. (2001). Origin of ...