These winsome little limbs—perfectly formed yet useless, at least for walking ... he has shown that whales, once celebrated by creationists as the best evidence against evolution, may be ...

As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out, "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old to make the new." ...

Follow their extraordinary journey from shore to sea. Although whales are expert swimmers and perfectly adapted to life underwater, these marine mammals once walked on four legs. Their land-dwelling ...

According to Gizmodo, the discovery of this new Peregocetus pacificus species has shed new light on the evolution ... that really ancient whales capable of swimming and walking made it to the ...