And they did. Today, a blue whale is 10 THOUSAND times more massive than the Pakicetus was. But this transformation wasn’t as gradual as you might think. In fact, over the next 37 million years ...

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"What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale," he told BBC News. "But there's no reason to think that our individual was particularly big or small; it was ...

That's practically the weight of a small car. But it's the typical size of a newborn blue whale. The biggest baby in the animal kingdom. When they nurse, calves put on 90 kg. Every. Single.

It took more than three years to prepare the blue whale for display in Hintze Hall ... whale's bones and how current staff feel about their own roles in the specimen's big move.