Earliest whales gave birth on land

Fossil finds help fill in gaps in the land-to-water transition

It took early whales a while to fully break free of the land: For at least one species, females came back to shore to give birth, a new study suggests.

EARLY WHALE These images (artist’s rendering and skeletal reconstruction) show the 2.6-meter-long Maiacetus inuus, an early whale that lived about 47.5