The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...

genetic and fossil evidence places cetaceans within the even-toed ungulates, most closely related to hippopotamus. Cetaceans have been extensively hunted for...

List of cetacean genera List of extinct cetaceans List of individual cetaceans Evolution of cetaceans Archaeoceti List of whale vocalizations List of marine...

Cetacean intelligence is the overall intelligence and derived cognitive ability of aquatic mammals belonging in the infraorder Cetacea (cetaceans), including...

the whales, and suggests a new understanding of the evolution of cetaceans. Pakicetus Evolution of cetaceans Bajpai, S; Thewissen, JG; and Sahni, A (November...

mammals, the even-toed ungulates. The earliest cetaceans were still hoofed mammals. These early cetaceans became gradually better adapted for swimming than...

from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution of cetaceans". Current Science. 79 (10): 1478–1482. ISSN 0011-3891. JSTOR 24105112...

cetaceans, are artiodactyls. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pakicetus. Cetaceans portal Paleontology portal Indohyus Evolution of cetaceans Bajpai...

Rodhocetus. Wikispecies has information related to Rodhocetus. Evolution of cetaceans Gingerich et al. 1994, p. 844 Rhodocetus in the Paleobiology Database...

longer than in modern cetaceans (but still shorter than in some extinct cetaceans with undulating spines.) Motion in the spine of pakicetids was further...

Evolution of cetaceans Berta, Annalisa (2012). Return to the Sea : The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals. Berkeley, CA: University of California...

shown by unhealed bite marks on the skulls of some juvenile Dorudon. Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans Andrews 1906, p. 255 Dorudon in the Paleobiology...

Ambulocetus is among the best-studied of Eocene cetaceans, and serves as an instrumental find in the study of cetacean evolution and their transition from land...

others opt to include cetaceans within the existing name of Artiodactyla. Some researchers use "even-toed ungulates" to exclude cetaceans and only include...

which consists of even-toed ungulates. Their closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopotamuses, from which they and other cetaceans diverged about...

perissodactyls, one lineage of artiodactyls began to venture out into the seas. The traditional theory of cetacean evolution was that cetaceans were related to the...

of these mammals started returning to the sea, including the cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Recent DNA analysis suggests that cetaceans evolved...

Ambulocetidae is a family of early cetaceans from northern South Asia. The genus Ambulocetus, after which the family is named, is by far the most complete...

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...

mammals Evolution of cetaceans Evolution of horses Evolution of primates – Origin and diversification of primates through geologic time Evolution of humans –...

12% larger than the one interpreted as female. Cetaceans portal Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans Gingerich PD, Ul-Haq M, von Koenigswald W, Sanders...

Cetacean surfacing behaviour is a grouping of movement types that cetaceans make at the water's surface in addition to breathing. Cetaceans have developed...

timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life...

Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale). There are currently 16 species of baleen whales. While cetaceans were historically thought to have descended from mesonychians...

to these whales.[citation needed] Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans "Classification of the family Cetotheriidae". Fossilwork. Retrieved 17 December...

some point, evolution is bound to stumble upon intelligence, a trait presently identified with at least primates, corvids, and cetaceans. In cladistics...

fairly similar to modern cetaceans in overall body form and function. Some genera tend to show signs of convergent evolution with mosasaurs by having...

been one of the first fully aquatic cetaceans, sometimes referred to as the Pelagiceti. Basilosaurus, unlike modern cetaceans, had various types of teeth–such...

Rayanistes Bebej, Zalmout, El-Aziz, Antar, and Gingerich, 2016 Cetaceans portal Evolution of cetaceans "Remingtonocetidae". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-09-01...

on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates. Dorsal fins have evolved independently several times through convergent evolution adapting to marine...