cetacea

This made possible later encephalization which reached two pinnacles in primates and particularly, humans and cetacea.

The Last Universal Common Ancestor - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Captain Nemo watched the troop of cetacea playing on the waters about a mile from the Nautilus.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

But Captain Nemo watched the troop of cetacea, and, addressing me, said:

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

The only specimens of quadrupeds, birds, fish and cetacea were a few wild boars, stormy petrels, albatrosses, perch and seals.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Antarctic Pole serves as a place of refuge to the cetacea too closely tracked by the hunters.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

Therefore they are so in dolphins and all the cetacea which have them, and in the oviparous quadrupeds among the scaly animals.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

“Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea.”

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

If in a series of evolving generations the line of modification proceeding from a terrestrial animal like a cat to semi-aquatic and marine types substantially like an otter and a seal should be carried further, it will inevitably lead to forms possessing characters such as those displayed by whales and the related porpoises, dolphins, and narwhals of the order cetacea.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

Of all the cetacea, that which approaches the nearest in form to man is undoubtedly the dugong, which, when its head and breast are raised above the water, and its pectoral fins, resembling hands, are visible, might easily be taken by superstitious seamen for a semi-human being.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Various

In this way he seeks to explain the marvel with respect to the huge bulk of many of the tertiary mammalia -- the mammoth, mastadon, and megatherium; they were in immediate descent from the cetacea, or whale and dolphin tribe. (p. 267.)

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous