Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The evolution of the greatest mammal on earth is a more ...

Although the first ten million years of whale evolution are documented by a remarkable series of fossil skeletons, the link to the ancestor of cetaceans has been missing. It was known that whales are ...

WASHINGTON - December 19, 2007 What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers or an overgrown ...

WASHINGTON ” The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the size of a small raccoon, new research suggests. What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - December 19, 2007 What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers or an overgrown long ...

Whales, dolphins and porpoises evolved from a tiny deer-like mammal that adapted to living at sea millions of years ago, a new study says. Whales are long suspected to have originated from four-footed ...

The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the size of a small raccoon, new research suggests. What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is ...

A beautiful artistic reconstruction of Indohyus by Carl Buell. A mouse deer attempts to escape by diving into the water. The proposed transition is a little fuzzy. Coyne outlines it this way; Clearly ...

Researchers have analysed fossils of what seems to be the missing link between whales and land-based mammals. The fossils help to show how cetaceans, including whales, dolphins and porpoises, might ...

When I first met Hans Thewissen, he spending an afternoon standing on a table, pointing a camera at a fossil between his feet. He asked me to hold a clip light to get rid of some shadows. I felt like ...

Joshua Rapp Learn is an award-winning D.C.-based science journalist who frequently writes for Discover Magazine, covering topics about archaeology, wildlife, paleontology, space and other topics. View ...