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 ...

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 from three species of Pakicetus as viewed from the back. (From Cooper et al., 2009) Such iconography is not entirely wrong. We know that living whales are 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 ...

Much like Pakicetus in the history of early whales ... Slowly, bone by bone, paleontologists are beginning to assemble the skeletal outline of how sea cows evolutionarily earned their name.