The Walking Whales (eBook)

1. A Wasted Dig
Fossils and War
A Whale Ear

2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur?
The King Lizard of Cape Cod
Basilosaurid Whales*
Basilosaurids and Evolution

3. A Whale with Legs
The Black and White Hills
A Walking Whale

4. Learning to Swim
Meeting the Killer Whale
From Dog-Paddle to Torpedo
Ambulocetid Whales*
Ambulocetus and Evolution

5. When the Mountains Grew
The High Himalayas
Kidnapping in the Hills
Indian Whales

6. Passage to India
Stranded in Delhi
Whales in the Desert
A 150-Pound Skull

7. A Trip to the Beach
The Outer Banks
A Fossilized Coast

8. The Otter Whale
The Whale with No Hands
Remingtonocetid Whales*
Building a Beast out of Bones

9. The Ocean Is a Desert
Forensic Paleontology
Drinking and Peeing
Fossilized Drinking Behavior
Walking with Ambulocetus

10. The Skeleton Puzzle
If Looks Could Kill
How Many Bones Make a Skeleton?
Finding Whales’ Sisters

11. The River Whales
Hearing in Whales
Pakicetid Whales*
September 11, 2001

12. Whales Conquer the World
A Molecular SINE
The Black Whale
Protocetid Whales*
Protocetids and History

13. From Embryos to Evolution
A Dolphin with Legs 
The Marine Park at Taiji 
Shedding Limbs 
Whaling in Taiji
 
14. Before Whales 
The Widow’s Fossils 
The Ancestors of Whales 
Indohyus* 
A Trust for Fossils 

15. The Way Forward 
The Big Question 
Tooth Development 
Baleen as Teeth 

Notes 
Index 
*These six headings summarize the biology of the six fossil groups that form the transition between whales and their terrestrial ancestors. Their relationships to each other and to the living families of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) are given in figure 66.