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Ancient Whale Fossil Helps Detail How the Mammals Took From Land to Sea
Smithsonian   11 December 2019   World  
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<p>Whales don&rsquo;t swim like fish do. Instead of moving their tales side-to-side like a shark or a sunfish, the marine mammals pump their tails up-and-down to propel themselves forward. But over 50 million years ago, the earliest whales had legs and could ...
What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
The Conversation   12 July 2017   World  
The break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea over the past 180 million years (Ma). Figure from McIntyre et al 2017, Author provided
<p>One of the first geological lessons we learn is that continents are constantly moving. The evidence of these plate tectonic movements is written in the rocks. But the rocks only tell us half of the story. The other half is contained in the evolutionary ...