PLoS A New Protocetid Whale from Pakistan

New Protocetid Whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on Land, Precocial Development, and Sexual Dimorphism.

Phil Gingerich, and colleagues, have uncovered three members of a new proto-whale species, Maiacetus inuus, with the fascinating twist that one of them is a fetus awaiting birth, head-first. As marine mammals are born tail-first if they’re born in water, this indicates the proto-whales still hauled themselves ashore to give birth.

And Creationists, Young and Old Earthers both, once said there were no transitional forms from terrestrial to marine for the whales, and such would never be found… Hah! The danger of the argument from ignorance is that it is a two-edged sword. New facts can change our deductions in a flash.