Whales are the largest animals of ALL TIME… At one stage of their evolutionary history, they lived on land! In this new series, palaeontologist Ben Francischelli will be documenting this remarkable step-wise transition to the water… but the first question that needs to be answered: Why did the whale go back into the water?
An Underwater Revolution Millions of Years Ago Rewrote The Script of The Ocean
Look far enough back in time, and a pattern may emerge. After studying thousands of ancient fossils, paleontologist Jack Sepkoski identified just such a thing in 1981: an epic sequence of life and death, etched into the skeletons of the last 500 million years. >> read more …