A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea.” Part memoir, part nature writing and part literary criticism, the book takes readers around ...

Whales are the biggest animal on the planet, dolphins are comparably smaller, but are they all one “big” happy family? They all belong to the Order Cetacea which is the group of sea mammals that ...

Synopsis of the earliest cetaceans : Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, and Protocetidae / Ellen M. Williams -- Middle to Late Eocene basilosaurines and dorudontines / Mark D. Uhen -- ...

I AM glad to be able to assure Mr. Searles Wood that I have long been familiar with the specimen called Palœocetus sedgwicki, preserved in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge, and have repeatedly ...