Imagine looking at a majestic blue whale gliding effortlessly through the ocean, the largest animal on Earth. Now, picture ...

These winsome little limbs—perfectly formed yet useless, at least for walking ... he has shown that whales, once celebrated by creationists as the best evidence against evolution, may be ...

As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out, "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old to make the new." ...

And although the geologists didn’t realize it at the time, the prehistoric specimens in the sand would offer clues to one of evolution ... whales had feet. “We had sometimes joked about ...

Follow their extraordinary journey from shore to sea. Although whales are expert swimmers and perfectly adapted to life underwater, these marine mammals once walked on four legs. Their land-dwelling ...