A recent research revealed a remarkable story of whale evolution—how these ... began with a remarkable fact: the ancestors of whales crawled out onto land around 400 million years ago and ...

Basilosaurus was indeed a whale, but one with two delicate ... and galloped on land. But the identity of these ancestors remained unclear. Certain skeletal features of archaic whales, particularly ...

It's the tale of an ancient land mammal ... a direct ancestor of the whales we know today; they may be side branches of the family tree. But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares ...

Their land-dwelling ancestors lived about 50 million years ago ... Pakicetus (pictured above) looked nothing like a whale, but it would have felt at home in the water. It lived on land, on the edge of ...

Whales evolved from land mammals about 50 million years ago. Fossils of primitive whale ancestors have been found in other places in the country, such as Kutch, Gujarat and Kalakot, Jammu and Kashmir.