A comparison of the third molars from three species of Pakicetus as viewed from the back. (From Cooper et al., 2009) Crack open just about any recent popular overview of evolution (namely Why ...

A comparison of the third molars from three species of Pakicetus as viewed from the back. (From Cooper et al., 2009) Crack open just about any recent popular overview of evolution (namely Why ...

The earliest whales are said to have roamed the Earth 50 million years ago.Despite what you may think, the earliest ancestor of the whale was a land-walking mammal called the Pakicetus.. Even ...

The earliest whales are said to have roamed the Earth 50 million years ago. Despite what you may think, the earliest ancestor of the whale was a land-walking mammal called the Pakicetus. Even ...

Pakicetus is a species of early whale that has only been known since the eighties. Anatomists going back to 19th century Britain knew that whales were mammals and probably most closely related to ...

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 is now Pakistan and India. It hunted ...

Well, that made it the oldest fossil whale anybody ever found. - [Narrator] It was groundbreaking, and as they discovered more pakicetus fossils, they realized something else: this whale could walk.

Nevertheless, by the late 1960’s paleontologists had identified a possible parent stock for whales on the basis of anatomical evidence. In 1966 Leigh Van Valen proposed that whale ancestry could ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the larger, six-tonne Basilosaurus, which appeared about 15 million years later than Pakicetus, could manage about 17 minutes. Many modern whales can remain submerged for more than an hour.

The earliest whales are said to have roamed the Earth 50 million years ago. Despite what you may think, the earliest ancestor of the whale was a land-walking mammal called the Pakicetus. Even though ...