Ambulocetus was a true marvel—a mammal bearing both the marks of its land-dwelling ancestors and the beginnings of a life at sea. Its name, meaning “walking whale,” perfectly captures its ...

By Susan Teskey, director and writer, The Mystery of the Walking Whale It was one of the biggest mysteries of evolution: how did four-legged land mammals evolve into whales? And how did a top team ...

The past two decades have changed all that, and whale evolution now is one of the best examples of macroevolution documented in the fossil record. In The Walking Whales, I revisit the evolutionary ...

An Egyptian desert, once an ocean, holds the secret to one of evolution’s most remarkable transformations. ... they jokingly attributed them to "walking whales"—a preposterous notion.

The intriguing story of how whale evolution was unpicked is told in The Walking Whales, revealing what it’s like to be a globe-trotting palaeontologist WHALES evolved from cat-sized terrestrial ...

Evidence for whale evolution from paleontology. ... which means "swimming-walking whale," according to a 2009 review published in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach.

The tale of whale evolution is a story about one of the most remarkable transitions in the history of mammals. ... And its full name, Ambulocetus natans, literally means the walking, swimming whale.

Whales used to walk on land A fossil of a 43-million-year-old whale that was still able to walk on land on four legs has been found in Peru. It is the first amphibious whale found in the southern ...

The skeleton of Ambulocetus natans, an extinct ‘walking whale’. By Ghedoghedo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY. In Darwin’s day nobody knew the Earth’s crust changes dramatically; land ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The ancestors of whales used to walk on land, and San Diego scientists are working to uncover mysteries about how the evolution from land to sea took place. They’re turning ...