Why it's incredible: The valley holds hundreds of primitive whale skeletons, some of which have "feet." Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Some recently discovered fossils are helping College of Charleston research associate and adjunct instructor Robert Boessenecker answer questions surrounding the evolution of ...

Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago. By Franz Lidz In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the ...

SUMMERVILLE — Skye Basak scours the bones. They’re grooved and gray, scattered on a dusty table like ancient souvenirs. A floor lamp washes the baubles in buttery light, and under Basak’s searching ...

Scientists excavating in a Peruvian desert have found the fossilized bones of what they argue may have been the heaviest animal ever to live: a strange ancient whale that may have had a teensy head ...