Most of the whale fossils belong to the extinct suborder Archaeoceti, notably the Basilosaurus, which featured an eel-like body, and the more modern, petite Dorudon.

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Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

Buried deep within the body of a whale, underneath the heaps of muscles and tendons, lie some little, lonely bones. They are whale hips–and they are one of the stranger examples of evolution’s ...

Whale Evolution: Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales ...

Valley of the Whales An Egyptian desert, once an ocean, holds the secret to one of evolution’s most remarkable transformations.

Early ancestors of modern whales once walked on four legs. One relative of whales was Pakicetus, which lived 50 million years ago.

New research on menopause in whales reveals that females of these species live significantly longer after their reproductive years compared to non-menopausal species.

Whales evolved from Pakicetus, an ancient mammal found in Pakistan Pakicetus, a goat-sized creature, lived in present-day Pakistan, 50 million years ago.

The fossils suggest that the "whales-eating-whales" behavior started very early in whale evolution, Voss said.

The evolution of whales has been a mystery. How did a large, big-brained mammal -- air-breathing, warm-blooded, giving birth to live young -- come to live entirely in water, when mammals evolved ...