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Hear more about camping on sea ice with whale hunters in our podcast, Overheard at National Geographic. This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the North ...

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Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...

But the biggest development in the seas was the appearance of whales in the mid- to late Paleogene. The huge animals evolved from land mammals that took to the seas. Meanwhile, smaller reptiles ...