Walking whales :

Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thewissen, J. G. M.
Other Authors: Dillard, Jacqueline
Format: Printed Book
Published: California University of California Press 2014
Subjects:
Whales, Fossil
Whales
Paleontology
Table of Contents:
  • A wasted dig
  • Fish, mammal, or dinosaur?
  • A whale with legs
  • Learning to swim
  • When the mountains grew
  • Passage to India
  • A trip to the beach
  • The otter whale
  • The ocean is a desert
  • The skeleton puzzle
  • The river whales
  • Whales conquer the world
  • From embryos to evolution
  • Before whales
  • The way forward.

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