The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to fathom the triumph of baleen whale evolution. The new study, published in ...

Behavior and Evolution Lab at Flinders University. "While eastern Indian and western Pacific blue whales have the lowest genetic diversity of the high-level hierarchical groups, which is likely ...

Whales’ cranial evolution came in three waves ... as it’s around the size of a melon. But the skull of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is more on the scale of a family sedan. Scanning a single ...

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." ...

In the process he has shown that whales, once celebrated by creationists as the best evidence against evolution, may be evolution's most elegant proof. "Complete specimens like that Basilosaurus ...

Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

Understanding human evolution through the study of whale evolution Brief definition and history of mammals How did land-based mammals return to the sea? Fossils from "transitional species" trace ...

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33-50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.