These winsome little limbs—perfectly formed yet useless, at least for walking—are a crucial clue to understanding how modern whales, supremely adapted swimming machines, descended from land ...

The whale was found by a tourist walking along the beach on Wednesday A dead whale has been discovered by a tourist on a beach in North Yorkshire. Chris David, who was visiting Saltwick Bay near ...

Despite what you may think, the earliest ancestor of the whale was a land-walking mammal called the Pakicetus. Even though whales are aquatic, the Pakicetus was a four-legged land animal.