Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost ...

A deep ocean whale graveyard is revealing new clues about whale evolution and the ecosystems that form around their remains.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...

Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed ...

Wadi Al-Hitan in Egypt’s Western Desert preserves one of the most important fossil records in the world for understanding how ...

Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25-million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed ...

BELOIT — Evidence that ancestors of today’s whales once walked on the land and how digital imaging technology can help unlock mysteries of the past were explored Saturday during the Roy Chapman ...

Alfred the aetiocetid had teeth but needed a better way to capture his tiny prey. Credit: Carl Buell Baleen whales, such as the gigantic 30m-long blue whale, are the largest animals that have ever ...

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...