Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

For over a century, scientists have been captivated by the mystery of how mammals evolved from sprawling creatures resembling ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

A graveyard of fossilized whale bones demonstrates this evolution. Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, located about 190 kilometers South-West of Cairo, is the world's most important site for ...

In the grand theater of evolution, few transformations are as dramatic as the journey of whales. These magnificent marine mammals, which now glide through ocean depths with graceful flukes and ...

A Surprising Link in the Evolutionary Chain: The Four-Legged Whale The Peregocetus pacificus is an ancient quadrupedal whale, meaning it had four legs and could walk on land. This discovery is ...

Four million years later, it lived permanently in the oceans and seas of planet earth. Using cutting edge CGI, this film follows the extraordinary evolution of a land animal into the modern whale.

Giant fossils uncovered in the Sahara Desert reveal new secrets of how whales evolved. A spectacular fossil graveyard reveals a 43-million-year-old whale that had four legs and could walk. Follow ...

Watch on YouTube: “Whale Evolution vs. Population Genetics - Richard Sternberg and Paul Nelson” and “Whale Evolution: Good Evidence for Darwin? (Long Story Short, Ep. 2)”. The more I read about the ...

In The Mystery of the Walking Whale, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki visits Wadi Hitan, also known as the Valley of the Whales. Fossilized pieces of about 1,000 whales, including complete skeletons, have ...

Watch now on CBC Gem. 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?

A stunning discovery from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center will greatly expand our understanding of whale evolution. An international team of scientists has unearthed the fossil ...