“Ancient Four-Legged Whale Unveiled: What Secrets Does This 40-Million-Year-Old Creature Hold?”
Current BiologyAn illustration depicting the distribution of Protocetid whales during the Middle Eocene.
In the end, it seems as though the scientific community as a whole is both fascinated to see reliable South American records for this species and eager to see what revelations regarding whale evolution are lying in wait. For Lambert, the search for further data continues.
“We will keep searching in localities with layers as ancient, and even more ancient, than the ones of Playa Media Luna, so older amphibious cetaceans may be discovered in the future,” said Lambert.
Fitzgerald agrees: “There are clearly more twists in the whale’s tale that we haven’t even begun to imagine,” he said. “What is certain is that there are many more cetacean surprises waiting to be uncovered in the southern hemisphere.”
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