Before Whales Became Giants They Were Monsters
A splash in the ocean can hide a story that began on four legs.
More than fifty million years ago, the ancestors of whales walked on land.
They hunted along riverbanks, waded through shallow waters, and looked nothing like the giants that roam the oceans today. Through one of the most extraordinary transformations in the history of life, those small mammals gradually became fully aquatic creatures, eventually giving rise to blue whales, sperm whales, orcas, and every whale species alive today. 🌊
This journey follows the complete evolutionary path of whales, from the deer-like Indohyus and the…
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