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 Hvalfjörðu
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
Acknowledgments
A Family Tree of Whales
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
