New research shows southern resident killer whales grooming each other using kelp they’ve modified, and researchers think ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

One of the first mammals to use echolocation may not have been a bat or a whale, but an early ancestor of horses. Hyopsodus was a weasel-like ungulate that lived 55 million years ago, around the ...

Whales were among a tiny handful of mammals to make an evolutionary U-turn, retrofitting their terrestrial body plan to sense, eat, move, ... and other even-toed ungulates.

If ancient omnivorous ungulates could eventually be found, Flower reasoned, it would be likely that at least some would be good candidates for early whale ancestors.

Because Indohyus itself is not a whale, ... an approximately 48-million-year-old even-toed ungulate from the Kashmir region of India, as the closest known fossil relative of whales.

Scientists agree that whales are actually highly specialized ungulates, or hoofed mammals. The question has been, to which ungulates are they most closely related?

The find could help resolve a long-standing debate over the evolutionary link between whales and hippos. It confirms genetic research placing whales' origin within the ungulate (hoofed animal) group.

Whales, dolphins and porpoises evolved from a tiny deer-like mammal that adapted to living at sea millions of years ago, ... Evidence to back this comes from fossils of even-toed ungulates, ...

Here we show that baleen whales, which prey on animals (fish and crustaceans), ... Langer, P. Evidence from the digestive tract on phylogenetic relationships in ungulates and whales. J.