A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn't quite get it right
Evolution is too complicated to plot out like a family tree.
By Kat Eschner April 9, 2018
Gray, blue, big, bigger: baleen whales put the mega in “megafauna.†In a new study published on April 4 in the journal Science Advances, researchers discuss the whole-genome sequencing of several of these mammoth species, including the blue whale—the largest animal alive. They found that these marine mammals are related in surprising ways, which could suggest that the most traditional view of evolution isn’t quite right.
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