Watching whales: the past, present and future of mysterious giants

This book talks about the past, present and future of the most, perhaps mysterious creatures on Earth. We learn about how these ancient, early whales, how these animals that lived on land passed to a water lifestyle millions of years ago, we learn by fossils. Search for fossil bones of whales and work on an anatomical description of existing species brought the author to a variety of points of the planet: from the Pustama desert in Chile, where the largest cemetery in the ancient whales - Serro -Ballin, to the whaling station in Iceland, from the Arctic to the Antarctic seas, was discovered. . How and why whales, initially ground animals the size of a dog, became the largest creatures in the history of the Earth? Does whales have a future, or are they, like elephants, are “too large” for our planet? How does our common future have a future with whales, judging by their current state and evolutionary past? The author of the book, the famous naval paleontologist Nick Payenson, answers these and many other questions