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title: "Evolution of whales"  
description: "A brief explanation about the evolution of whales and it's amazing facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-09-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2695/evolution-of-whales  
category: "animals"  
tags: ["Whales", "evolution", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Evolution of whales

![Evolution of whales](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8986ff40-48b8-42f8-8531-240da6efc92d/images/dc610325-4ed9-4dd4-9afc-3235c2560b7c.jpeg) ![Evolution of whales](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8986ff40-48b8-42f8-8531-240da6efc92d/images/cf1ad89c-fb67-44b6-8dda-a8d2518efcd0.jpeg) The first known whales lived roughly 50 million years ago, during the Eocene period. ![Evolution of whales](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8986ff40-48b8-42f8-8531-240da6efc92d/images/c4c576e6-ac2b-46bb-b6d1-c370f8201fab.jpeg) They were four-legged, tiny mammals who lived in swamps and estuaries. ![Evolution of whales](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8986ff40-48b8-42f8-8531-240da6efc92d/images/df4f1594-6e67-4a2e-879c-b54b379d2e95.jpeg) These early whales evolved more and more adopted to an aquatic lifestyle over time. ![Evolution of whales](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8986ff40-48b8-42f8-8531-240da6efc92d/images/bf1e012d-62a9-4fff-a829-f14fc2ade2ab.jpeg) Their limbs shrank and became more streamlined, their tails grew larger and more powerful, and their bodies shrank. ![Evolution of whales](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8986ff40-48b8-42f8-8531-240da6efc92d/images/902560ee-2eca-4f05-b217-3cade0be840a.jpeg) Over the course of 40 million years, whales evolved a blowhole and echolocation.

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