Modern whale skeletal system
Time period shown: Modern
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Modern whale skeletal system
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The evolution of whales is a fascinating story told in the fossils of ancient whales and in the bones of living ones: Vestigial traits from the land-dwelling ancestors of whales can still be found in modern whales.
Did you know?
The ancestors of whales were land-dwelling animals called creodonts -- wolf-like carnivores that lived in the early Eocene.