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Timeline of Whale Evolution - Smithsonian Ocean Portal; Cetacean Paleobiology – University of Bristol; BBC: Whale's evolution; BBC: Whale Evolution – The Fossil Evidence; Hooking Leviathan by Its Past by Stephen Jay Gould; Research on the Origin and Early Evolution of Whales (Cetacea), Gingerich, P.D., University of Michigan
Acrocanthosaurus.. Archaeologist Jack. T. Hughes has found evidence that the paleo-Indians of Texas collected fossils. [20] After the establishment of paleontology as a formal science, in 1878, professor Jacob Boll made the first scientifically documented Texan fossil finds in Archer and Wichita counties while collecting fossils on behalf of Edward Drinker Cope.
Georgiacetus is an extinct genus of ancient whale known from the Eocene period of the United States.Fossils are known from Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and protocetid fossils from the right time frame, but not yet confirmed as Georgiacetus, have been found in Texas (Kellogg 1936) and South Carolina (Albright 1996).
This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas.
The whale’s decomposing body is located at what is called the Clayoquot Slope Bullseye site, where Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) scientists monitor methane gas escaping the seafloor. In 2012 and ...
The timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth. Dates in this article are consensus estimates based on scientific evidence , mainly fossils .
The sound waves of a fin whale song is loud enough to penetrate Earth’s crust and assist with mapping the ocean floor, a new study has found. Singing fin whales can help map ocean floor: study ...
1944 — The publication of Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson integrates paleontology into the modern evolutionary synthesis. 1946 — Reginald Sprigg discovers fossils of the Ediacaran biota in Australia. In the 1960s Martin Glaessner would show that they were pre-Cambrian. 1947 — Willard Libby introduces carbon-14 dating.