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Primitive Proto-Whales May Have Clambered Ashore to Give Birth

By Eliza Strickland

Feb 4, 2009 11:59 PMNov 5, 2019 5:26 AM

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The paleontologists didn't understand what they'd found when they first unearthed the fossil of a primitive whale nine years ago.

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