The walking whales: from land to water in eight million years

Abstract

1. A Wasted Dig Fossils and War A Whale Ear 2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur? The King Lizard of Cape Cod Basilosaurid Whales* Basilosaurids and Evolution 3. A Whale with Legs The Black and White Hills A Walking Whale 4. Learning to Swim Meeting the Killer Whale From Dog-Paddle to Torpedo Ambulocetid Whales* Ambulocetus and Evolution 5. When the Mountains Grew The High Himalayas Kidnapping in the Hills Indian Whales 6. Passage to India Stranded in Delhi Whales in the Desert A 150-Pound Skull 7. A Trip to the Beach The Outer Banks A Fossilized Coast 8. The Otter Whale The Whale with No Hands Remingtonocetid Whales* Building a Beast out of Bones 9. The Ocean Is a Desert Forensic Paleontology Drinking and Peeing Fossilized Drinking Behavior Walking with Ambulocetus 10. The Skeleton Puzzle If Looks Could Kill How Many Bones Make a Skeleton? Finding Whales' Sisters 11. The River Whales Hearing in Whales Pakicetid Whales* September 11, 2001 12. Whales Conquer the World A Molecular SINE The Black Whale Protocetid Whales* Protocetids and History 13. From Embryos to Evolution A Dolphin with Legs The Marine Park at Taiji Shedding Limbs Whaling in Taiji 14. Before Whales The Widow's Fossils The Ancestors of Whales Indohyus* A Trust for Fossils 15. The Way Forward The Big Question Tooth Development Baleen as Teeth Notes Index *These six headings summarize the biology of the six fossil groups that form the transition between whales and their terrestrial ancestors. Their relationships to each other and to the living families of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) are given in figure 66.