Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Map
Prologue
PART I: PAST
1. How to Know a Whale
2. Mammals Like No Other
3. The Stories Bones Tell
4. Time Travel on the Fossil Whale Highway
5. The Afterlife of a Whale
6. Rock Picks and Lasers
7. Cracking the Case of Cerro Ballena
PART II: PRESENT
8. The Age of Giants
9. The Ocean’s Utmost Bones
10. A Discovery at Hvalfjörður
11. Physics and Flensing Knives
12. The Limits of Living Things
PART III: FUTURE
13. Arctic Time Machines
14. Shifting Baselines
15. All the Ways to Go Extinct
16. Evolution in the Anthropocene
17. Whalebone Junction
Epilogue
A Family Tree of Whales
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Publisher
