Found on the southern coast of Peru, this amphibious creature had a tail and hooves and was the oldest preserved fossil of ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

But a new discovery from University of Pisa paleontologists may dethrone the blue whale in favor of a prehistoric cetacean ...

This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the “Valley of the Whales.” Now, paleontologists have unearthed a whole new species of ancient whale dating to 43 million years ago ...

The oceans are thought to be where life started but about 50-million years ago, something incredible happened: some mammals found their way back into the water. National Corporate funding for NOVA ...

Researchers have previously found fossilized whale skeletons with megalodon teeth embedded within them. While scientists are not sure if this means that the ancient shark actually did prey on ...

However, based on the actual body length of the megalodon revealed this time, as well as analysis based on a hydrodynamic model of how large creatures such as whale sharks, basking sharks ...

To see if barnacles had the same properties long ago, Taylor hunted down fossils that lived on early humpback whales, and bingo: They did. He hopes to shed light on prehistoric whales’ movements ...

It was estimated that the fossil is of a prehistoric whale dating back to the Middle Eocene period (39-47 million years ago). But 10 months later, on January 27, parts of the fossil were reported ...