“If I might presume to express any opinion as to the animal to which these bones belong, I should venture to say that they were part of a sea monster” – H. BRY These words were written by a Louisiana farmer who discovered Basilosaurus, one of the first ancient whales formally described by science. In […]
On the last post we met Pakicetus, the ancient whale that walked on land 50 million years ago. Now you may be wondering: how did a hairy, four-legged, wolf-like creature turn into a whale? Imagine you are the first whale that ever existed. You don’t know that yet, but scientists will call you Pakicetus after […]
The picture you see is one of the oldest known ancestors of a whale: Pakicetus, an amphibious mammal that walked on land and hunted in freshwater streams 50 million years ago. With four legs, a long snout and a fully furred body, the first whale did not look like a whale at all. However, a […]
