The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the 'triumph' of baleen whale evolution. The new study explores the key genetic ...
Wadi al-Hitan, Egypt's Whale Valley, showcases evolution's transition of whales from land to sea. This UNESCO World Heritage site, 160 km southwest of Cairo, reveals hundreds of Archaeoceti fossils, ...
A dolphin breaking the surface for air can seem like a reminder of its mammalian past. But evolution is not nostalgia. The same body that still needs oxygen from the atmosphere is also one of the ...