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GUWAHATI: Evidence suggesting that Northeast India was once part of a vast ocean has gone missing. A partially fossilized jaw and teeth, believed to belong to a whale ancestor from 35–40 million years ...

Basilosaurus was indeed a whale, but one with two delicate ... and galloped on land. But the identity of these ancestors remained unclear. Certain skeletal features of archaic whales, particularly ...

Their land-dwelling ancestors lived about 50 million years ago ... Pakicetus (pictured above) looked nothing like a whale, but it would have felt at home in the water. It lived on land, on the edge of ...