aMost of the fossils in the valley belong to two types: Basilosaurus was the giant, with an almost eel-like body The more petite but heavily muscled Dorudon looked more like a modern whale, at least until its mouth opened to reveal a jaw lined with serrated daggers instead of peg-like ...
prehistoric Wadi Hitan was a whale-eat-whale world. That part of Egypt was likely a warm, nutrient-rich elongated gulf not unlike modern Baja California, where gray whales today come to bear young. Gingerich thinks that Dorudon likewise calved in the shallows, because there are 离一个操场很远...
found but they included, for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes.Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land.Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly non...
found but they included, for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes.Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land.Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly non...