The walking whales. From land to water in eight million years / Ходячие киты. От суши до воды за восемь миллионов лет

Punjab, Pakistan, January 1991. I am excited beyond belief! The National Geographic Society is giving me money to collect fossils in Pakistan: my very own field project, the first time ever. For years, it has been great to collect fossils in exotic places—Wyoming, Sardinia, and Colombia. But this is different. Now I can run my own program, decide where to collect, and study what is found. It’s exciting but also daunting. My friend Andres Aslan will come with me. We’re perfect complements: he loves geology and I love fossils. We’re both just out of school, freshly minted PhDs, and together we’re ready and able to set the world on fire, or at least vacuum up any fossil between Attock and Islamabad. <...>