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Fisch's latest update features a brand new event called the Whale Migration. This release was made a week after the massive Mariana's Veil update brought tons of new content. While the recent one ...

The Embolotherium is an extinct genus of animal, whose name translates from Greek into the “Battering Ram Beast”, or “Wedge Beast”. This animal lived during the late Eocene Epoch in East Asia. Its ...

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The Museum is scanning its collection of whale specimens so that the data is easier to handle and accessible to researchers around the world. For the first time, scientists have an image of what ...

A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: Lars Bejder/NOAA Scientists have long understood that microbes, zooplankton, and fish are vital sources of recycled nitrogen in coastal waters.

Image credits: Kenai Fjords National Park. You’ve heard of the butterfly effect — the idea that a tiny flap of wings can trigger a hurricane on the other side of the world. Now, imagine a ...

According to Philip Stearns, a researcher at SeaWorld San Diego, the conventional method of predicting size using fossilized teeth estimated the megalodon to be about 18 to 20 meters in size.

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf off Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Whales do more than simply glide through the ocean—they play a vital role in ...