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How Whales Got To Be Whales

January 26, 2021February 2, 2021Scott Buchanan1 Comment

Although they live in the ocean like fish, whales are clearly mammals. A reasonably complete series of intermediate fossils have been found for the evolution of whales from terrestrial mammals. A sampling of these transitional species is shown below:

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