Whales were not always such massive creatures.
Whales were not always such massive creatures. Millions of years ago, they were much smaller. So what caused them to evolve into the largest animals on the planet?
ATLAS associate research professor Pedro DiNezio helped an interdisciplinary team of researchers using Earth system models to investigate this question.
This line of research was spearheaded by Barbara Carrapa, Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, after the discovery of remarkable whale fossils at Cerro Ballena, Chile, a region she had been conducting research in.
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