Early Fossil Whales Used Well Developed Back Legs for Swimming

Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 19:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Reporting in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, palaeontologist Mark D. Uhen of the Alabama Museum of Natural History describes new fossils from Alabama and Mississippi that pinpoint where tail flukes developed in the evolution of whales.

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