50 Million Years of Whale Animation in One Minute

Slate recently featured an animation of 50 million years of whale evolution represented in one minute. The animation is the work of Jordan Collver, an illustrator and science communicator in the U.K. Collver used a series of illustrations to show the slow-changing morphology of the ancient quadruped Pakicetus, as millions of years of aquatic adaptation shapes the land mammal into the modern sperm whale. If you would like to slow things down a bit, a ten minute version of the animation is also available here.

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50 Million Years of Whale Animation in One Minute — 2 Comments

  1. FASCINATING…AND WELL DEPICTED.

    IS THERE EVIDENCE, WHICH WE CAN READ, SUPPORTING THIS THEORY ?

  2. Superb. Led to other really good stuff. I’m folding this into my class: “History of Life”. Many thanks.